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Jesuit chreia in late Ming China : two studies with an annotated translation of Alfonso Vagnone's Illustrations of the Grand Dao / Sher-shiueh Li and Thierry Meynard.

Title
Jesuit chreia in late Ming China : two studies with an annotated translation of Alfonso Vagnone's Illustrations of the Grand Dao / Sher-shiueh Li and Thierry Meynard.
Author
Li, Sher-shiueh, 1956-
Publication
Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, 2013.

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Additional Authors
Meynard, Thierry,
Description
373 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
In an astonishing collaboration the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone (also known as GaoYizhi) and with and the Chinese scholar-official Han Yun wrote down 355 chreiai and sayings, bringing classic Western rhetoric teaching to the late Ming China. In this book, two specialists present complementary studies on the historical, political, and literary background of this interesting topic.
Series Statement
Euro-sinica ; Band 14
Subject
  • Chreiai > China > History > 17th century
  • Chreiai > Translations into English
  • Jesuits > China > History > 17th century
  • Vagnoni, Alfonso, 1566-1640
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ming Jesuit chreia in Chinese : an analysis of its types and functions by / Sher-Shiueh Li -- Illustrations of the Grand Dao : a book of rhetoric and morality in late Ming China / Thierry Meynard -- Alfonso Vagnone's illustrations of the Grand Dao / edited, translated and commented by Sher-Shiveh LI and Thierry Menard.
ISBN
  • 9783034314398
  • 3034314396
LCCN
2013022632
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library