TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wardega,Artur K.
AU  - Vasconcelos de Saldanha,Antonio
TI  - In the light and shadow of an emperor: Tomas Pereira, SJ (1645-1708), the Kangxi emperor and the Jesuit mission in China 
SN  - 9781443838542
AV  - BV3427.P454 I5 2012eb
U1  - 951.030924 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Pereira, Tomás,
KW  - Pereira, Tomas,
KW  - Jesuits
KW  - Missions
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Portugal
KW  - fast
KW  - Church history
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Kangxi, 1662-1722
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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