Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China
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Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China

Two Studies with an Annotated Translation of Alfonso Vagnones "Illustrations of the Grand Dao

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  1. 373 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China

Two Studies with an Annotated Translation of Alfonso Vagnones "Illustrations of the Grand Dao

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About this book

Used by Classical and Medieval Western schools to teach rhetoric, a chreia is a brief moral story attributed to a famous historical figure. In Late Ming China, the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone, also named Gao Yizhi, and the Chinese scholar-official Han Yun collaborated on a project to write down 355 chreiai and sayings. These short commentaries are not mere translations of the Grecoroman text but the elaborate literary creations of two luminaries working at the junction between Chinese and Western wisdom literature. Along with the original Chinese and its English translation (the original source is included when available) the authors share their expert analysis of each chreia.
This study will interest scholars across disciplines: Chinese literature, Comparative literature, Sinology, Chinese thought, Christian studies, Western classics and Moral Philosophy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Acknowledgments 7
  4. Abbreviations 9
  5. Ming Jesuit Chreia in Chinese: An Analysis of Its Types and Functions by SHER-SHIUEH LI 11
  6. Illustrations of the Grand Dao: A Book of Rhetoric and Morality in Late-Ming China by THIERRY MEYNARD 97
  7. Alfonso Vagnone’s Illustrations of the Grand Dao, Vol. I. Edited, Translated and Commented by SHER-SHIUEH LI and THIERRY MEYNARD 183
  8. Alfonso Vagnone’s Illustrations of the Grand Dao, Vol. II 253
  9. Bibliography 345
  10. Index of Names 369