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Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu has published the first volume of Kilian Stumpf’s The Acta Pekinensia or Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation. Edited by Paul Rule and Claudia von Collani, the book presents, for the first time in English, the account of the first years (December 1705-August 1706) of the visit to China by Papal Legate Charles Thomas Maillard de Touron. According to the publisher, “The German Jesuit Kilian Stumpf was a privileged observer of these events, particularly those in Beijing, the Chinese capital, but also through his extensive correspondence in the rest of China. He worked directly for the Chinese Emperor Kangxi as director of the imperial glassworks. He was designated as the procurator or negotiator with the Legate on behalf of his Jesuit companions; he lived in the same house as the Legate during his period at the court and as a papal notary kept a daily record of events and copies of key documents in a huge document sent in sections to Rome, the Acta Pekinensia.”
Setting Off from Macau: Essays on Jesuit History during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, by Tang Kaijian, is the newest volume in the Jesuit Studies book series by Brill Publishers, which notes: “It is impossible to understand the early history of the Society of Jesus and the Catholic Church in China without understanding the preeminent role played by the island of Macau in the Jesuit missionary endeavor; indeed, it can even be said that Catholicism would not exist in China if there was no Macau. This book seeks to restore Macau to its proper place in the history of Catholicism and the Jesuit missions in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties by offering a unique insight into subjects ranging from the origins of Jesuit missionary work on the island to the history of Jesuit education and Catholic art and music on the Chinese mainland.”
In using Jesuit missionaries to examine Catholicism in Macau during the two dynasties, Kaijian’s book has eight chapters: on Catholicism’s origins and development; Catholicism’s spread in Mainland China; Japanese Christians in Macau; Catholicism’s rise and fall of Catholicism in Hainan; the funding of Jesuit missionary work; Catholic art; Catholic Music; and the so-called “Jesuit Clock Diplomacy.”
L’Istituto Confucio at the Università di Macerata hosts an important, three-day conference on new scholarship and perspectives on Matteo Ricci (1552–1610).
“New Perspectives in the Studies on Matteo Ricci” features presentations by 21 scholars from October 21-23, 2015. The event also includes a tour of Ricci’s historical landmarks in Macerata, the birthplace of the noted Jesuit missionary.
A full program appears below and is available online.
October 21
Aula Magna / Piaggia dell’Università, 2
9.00 Welcome addresses
10.00 FILIPPO MIGNINI
Introduction
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 RONNIE PO-CHIA HSIA / Penn State University, State College, USA
Becoming Li Madou: Ruggieri, Ricci,Longobardo and the Making of the Jesuit China Mission
11.30 LI TIANGANG / Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Zhu Xi’s First “Travel” to Europe, Understanding for Neo-Confucianism, and Its Influences of Longobardo’s “Traité sur Quelques Points de la Religion desChinois”
12.15 Discussion
15.00 LIU YANMEI / Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
An Italian-Chinese bilingual Reference Book on Matteo Ricci and his Chinese interlocutors in late Ming Dynasty (1579-1610)
15.45 FREDÉRIC WANG / INALCO, Paris, France
Matteo Ricci and the jinshi of 1589
16.30 Coffee Break
16.45 ADRIAN DUDINK / Université de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
A new proposal for the identification of “Ligiucin”
17.30 HU WENTING / Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
A Brief Study of Chinese Books on Western Learning in Ricci’s “De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas Suscepta ab Societate Iesu”
18.15 Discussion
October 22
Aula Verde / Polo Pantaleoni / Via Pescheria vecchia
9.00 ZHANG XIPING / Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
A research on the bibliographical sources of the separate sheets in the “Portuguese-Chinese Dictionary”
9.45 RAOUL ZAMPONI / University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy
The sounds of guan hua (the official language) in the Dictionary of Ricci, Ruggieri and Anonymous Chinese (1582-1583),and its representation through Latin alphabet characters
10.30 DIEGO POLI / University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy
The Italian Language of Matteo Ricci
11.15 Tour of Ricci’s historical landmarks in Macerata, Planetary Clock of Macerata’s City Tower
15.00 GIANNI CRIVELLER / Pime, Holy Spirit Study Center, Hong Kong, China
Matteo Ricci’s contribution to the intellectual history of melancholy
15.45 VITO AVARELLO / University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
The self and the inter-subjectivity in Ricci’s writing: construction of a mystical fable for a new Christian eudemonism
16.30 Coffee Break
16.45 WANG SUNA / Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China
Introduction of the European Classics and Ethics in China at the end of the Ming Dynasty
17.30 HUANG PING / University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy
Themes and Issues in the “Posthumous Polemics” ascribed to Matteo Ricci
18.15 Discussion
October 23
Aula Verde / Polo Pantaleoni
/ Via Pescheria vecchia
9.00 DOROTHY FIGUEIRA / University of Georgia, Athens, USA
The Jesuits in Asia, Ricci’s accommodation Policy and Comparing Cultures
9.45 LI SHENWEN / Laval University, Québec City, Canada
Adaptation and success: Matteo Ricci’s strategy in China 10.30 Coffee break
10.45 MARCELLO LA MATINA / University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy
Translatability, Ontology, Rites: the reasons of the actuality of Matteo Ricci
11.30 ANGELO CATTANEO / Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal
Spaces and Places of Religious Knowledge.Mediality of Religious Knowledge in the Mission of Japan and China
12.15 Discussion
15.00 MICHELA CATTO / EHESS, Paris, France
Images of “Jesuitical” China in the Enlightenment: Irreligion, Anticlericalism Anti-Jesuitism
15.45 MICHEL DUPUIS / Université de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
Some meta-ethical reflections about Christian Wolff’s “Oratio de sinarum philosophia practica” (1721) and his “Adnotationes” (1726)
16.30 Coffee break
16.40 SELUSI AMBROGIO / University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy
The changing influence of Jesuits’ China on European histories of philosophy (1600-1744)
17.25 THIERRY MEYNARD / Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Ricci and three early Jesuit translations of the “Lunyu”
18.10 Discussion
19.00 Final Discussion
Conclusions and perspectives on Ricci’s studies