05144cam a2200685Ia 4500 ocn442778431 OCoLC 20200709055221.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 091001s2007 mauab ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng pn N$T OCLCQ OCLCF NLGGC E7B AU@ CNMTR DKDLA YDXCP COO DEBBG OCLCQ EBLCP OCLCQ AGLDB COCUF MOR PIFAG ZCU MERUC OCLCQ DEGRU OCLCO 646814741 746588516 764521329 870344517 923110827 975212239 975244676 979574796 988432979 992071272 992864480 9780674028814 (electronic bk.) 0674028813 (electronic bk.) 9780674030367 0674030362 (Trade Paper) 10.4159/9780674028814 doi 282497 (N$T) (OCoLC)442778431 (OCoLC)646814741 (OCoLC)746588516 (OCoLC)764521329 (OCoLC)870344517 (OCoLC)923110827 (OCoLC)975212239 (OCoLC)975244676 (OCoLC)979574796 (OCoLC)988432979 (OCoLC)992071272 (OCoLC)992864480 00011705 a-cc--- BV3417 .B76 2007eb REL 045000 bisacsh 266/.251 22 MAIN Brockey, Liam Matthew. Journey to the East : the Jesuit mission to China, 1579-1724 / Liam Matthew Brockey. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. 1 online resource (xii, 496 pages) : illustrations, maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-477) and index. Preface -- Note on translations and orthography -- Introduction -- PART I. CHARTING THE COURSE. An uneasy foothold -- In the shadow of greatness -- Witnesses to armageddon -- The problem of success -- Between tolerance and the intolerable -- PART II. BUILDING THE CHURCH. In the apostles' classroom -- Learning the language of birds -- The business of conversion -- A good method and order -- Brothers of passion and mercy -- Conclusion -- Bibliographic note -- Notes -- Illustration credits -- Index. Print version record. It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This & ldquo;journey to the East & rdquo; is explored by Liam Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China, believing that, with little more than firm conviction and divine assistance, they could convert the Chinese to Christianity. Moving beyond the image of Jesuits as cultural emissaries, his book shows how these priests, in the first concerted European effort to engage with Chinese language and thought, translated Roman Catholicism into the Chinese cultural frame and eventually claimed two hundred thousand converts. The first narrative history of the Jesuits & mission from 1579 until the proscription of Christianity in China in 1724, this study is also the first to use extensive documentation of the enterprise found in Lisbon and Rome. The peril of travel in the premodern world, the danger of entering a foreign land alone and unarmed, and the challenge of understanding a radically different culture result in episodes of high drama set against such backdrops as the imperial court of Peking, the villages of Shanxi Province, and the bustling cities of the Yangzi Delta region. Further scenes show how the Jesuits claimed conversions and molded their Christian communities into outposts of Baroque Catholicism in the vastness of China. In the retelling, this story reaches across continents and centuries to reveal the deep political, cultural, scientific, linguistic, and religious complexities of a true early engagement between East and West. In English. Master record variable field(s) change: 650 Jesuits Missions China. Jesuits. fast (OCoLC)fst00532143 China Church history. RELIGION Christian Ministry Missions. bisacsh Missions. fast (OCoLC)fst01023771 China. fast (OCoLC)fst01206073 History. Modern History . Theologie, Christentum. Electronic books. Church history. fast (OCoLC)fst01411629 Print version: Brockey, Liam Matthew. Journey to the East. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007 0674024486 9780674024489 (DLC) 2006049695 (OCoLC)71126907 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=282497 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3300366 ebrary EBRY ebr10318356 EBSCOhost EBSC 282497 YBP Library Services YANK 3081708 De Gruyter DEGR 9780674028814 92 N$T 49544 49544