Tomas Pereira, SJ (1645-1708), the Kangxi emperor and the Jesuit mission in ChinaWardega, Artur K.Vasconcelos de Saldanha, Antonio.textbibliographyElectronic books.History.enkNewcastle upon Tyne, UKCambridge Scholars Publishing©20122012monographiceng1 online resource (xxiv, 583 pages)The present collection was written to commemorate the third centenary of the death of the Portuguese Jesuit, Tomás Pereira (1645-1708). Dealing with some of the most decisive and controversial moments in the history of the Jesuit mission in China during the Kangxi era (1662-1722), these essays were produced by an international team of scholars and cover a wide range of topics that reflect a permanent academic interest, in Europe and America as well as in China, in the history of the Catholic ...Table of contents; list of illustrations; notes on editors and contributors; preface; introduction; part i; root and branch; tomás pereira and the jesuits of the court of the kangxi emperor; father tomás pereira, sj, the kangxi emperor, and the court westerners; the image of tomás pereira in qing dynasty documents; from the earthly court to the heavenly court; the last imperial honours from tomás pereira to the eulogium europeorum doctorum in 1711; part ii; 'amicíssimos'; the fô and the xekiâ; ubi dux, ibi curia; 'riding a crane she ascended to the distant realms'; part iii.The 'edict of tolerance' (1692)tomás pereira's appealto the portuguese jesuits and missionary recruitment to china; ferdinand verbiest's letter of 1678; part iv; defending european astronomy in china ... against europe, tomás pereira and the directorate of astronomy in 1688; resolution of some questions about tomás pereira's arrival in beijing and service at the directorate of astronomy; seventeenth-century jesuit surveys for a secure overland route from europe to china; part v; the jesuits at nerchinsk; tomás pereira at the nerchinsk conference; tomás pereira, jing tian, and nerchinsk; part vi.Mission by musicthe organist and organ builder tomás pereira; the macau ricci institute; index.edited by Arthur K. Wardega, SJ, and Antonio Vasconcelos de Saldanha.Includes bibliographical references and index.a-cc---e-po---Pereira, Tomás1645-1708JesuitsMissionsChinaHistory17th centuryJesuitsPortugalHistory17th centuryJesuitsChinaHistory17th centuryPereira, Tomas1645-1708JesuitsMissionsChinaHistory17th centuryJesuitsPortugalHistory17th centuryJesuitsChinaHistory17th centuryPereira, Tomás1645-1708Jesuits.Church history17th centuryChinaHistoryKangxi, 1662-1722HISTORYAsiaChinaChurch historyMissionsChinaPortugal 1600-1722 fast BV3427.P454 I5 2012eb951.030924(DLC) 20124945909781443838542144383854312996467519781299646759495925 MILhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=553418http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=553418E7B12071320200709055758.0ocn847618212eng