TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brockey,Liam Matthew
TI  - Journey to the East: the Jesuit mission to China, 1579-1724 
SN  - 978-0-674-03036-7
U1  - 298.66251 23A
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - The Belknap press of Harvard university press
N1  - Bibliogr. p. [427]-477
N2  - 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 "journey to the East" 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
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