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Friendship and Hospitality
- The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China
Engelsk Hardback
Friendship and Hospitality
- The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China
Engelsk Hardback

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Offers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.

The Jesuit mission to China more than four hundred years ago has been the subject of sustained scholarly investigation for centuries. Focusing on the concepts of friendship and hospitality as they were both theorized and practiced by the Jesuit missionaries and their Confucian hosts, this book offers a new, comparative, and deconstructive reading of the interaction between these two vastly different cultures. Dongfeng Xu analyzes how the Jesuits presented their concept of friendship to achieve their evangelical goals and how the Confucians reacted in turn by either displaying or denying hospitality. Challenging the hierarchical view in traditional discourse on friendship and hospitality by revealing the irreducible otherness as the condition of possibility of the two concepts, Xu argues that one legacy of the Jesuit-Confucian encounter has been the shared recognition that cultural differences are what both motivated and conditioned cross-cultural exchanges and understandings.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781438484952
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
143848495X
Udg. Dato:
1 sep 2021
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
1 sep 2021
Forfatter(e):
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