The Interpretation of Tang Christianity in the Late Ming China Mission - Nicolini-Zani, Matteo
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The book contains the first annotated English translation of the Correct Explanation of the Tang "Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching" (1644) by the Jesuit Manuel Dias Jr. and other late Ming Chinese Christian sources interpreting the "venerable ancestor" of the Jesuit mission, namely, the mission of the Church of the East in Tang China. Based on this documentation, the book reconstructs the process of "appropriation" by Jesuit missionaries and their Chinese converts of ancient traces of Christianity that were discovered in China in the first half of the seventeenth century, such as the Xi'an stele (781) and other Christian relics…mehr

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The book contains the first annotated English translation of the Correct Explanation of the Tang "Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching" (1644) by the Jesuit Manuel Dias Jr. and other late Ming Chinese Christian sources interpreting the "venerable ancestor" of the Jesuit mission, namely, the mission of the Church of the East in Tang China. Based on this documentation, the book reconstructs the process of "appropriation" by Jesuit missionaries and their Chinese converts of ancient traces of Christianity that were discovered in China in the first half of the seventeenth century, such as the Xi'an stele (781) and other Christian relics
Autorenporträt
Matteo Nicolini-Zani is a Catholic monk of the ecumenical Monastic Community of Bose, Italy, and a sinologist. He conducts historical and literary research on Christianity in China. He is the author of Christian Monks on Chinese Soil: A History of Monastic Mission to China (Liturgical Press, 2016) and The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounter of Christianity with China (OUP, 2022).