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...Gianni Criveller Matteo Ricci: A Jesuit in the Ming Court . By Michela Fontana . Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers , 2011 . xv, 319 pp. $44.95 (cloth). A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci, 1552–1610 . By R. Po-chia Hsia . New York : Oxford University...

...Timothy Brook Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology . By David E. Mungello . Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa, vol. 25. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GMBH , 1985 . 405 pp. 20 Plates, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. DM 96. Copyright © The Association...

...Brian K. Pennington Disputed Mission: Jesuit Experiments and Brahmanical Knowledge in Seventeeth-Century India . By Ines G. Zupanov . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2000 . 277 pp. $23.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS...

... of the senior China Jesuit, Alessandro Valignano, and ends with his death in 1607. The revisionist import of these dates is what they leave out: the arrival of the legendary Matteo Ricci in 1582 and his death in 1610. Chapter 2 picks up the story with another seemingly minor event: the return of prominent...

...L. Carrington Goodrich A post-script to the review of Eloise Talcott Hibbert's Jesuit adventure in China … ., pp. 185 –6 above. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 BOOK REVIEWS 205 which operate for and against its coming. There is, for example, no appraisal...

...L. Carrington Goodrich Jesuit adventure in China during the reign of K'ang Hsi . By Eloise Talcott Hibbert . New York : Dutton , 1941 . x, 298 p. $5.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 1 Published in England under the title of K'ang Hsi...

...Ashleigh Ikemoto Jesuit Mission and Submission: Qing Rulership and the Fate of Christianity in China, 1644–1735 . By Litian Swen . Leiden : Brill , 2021 . 227 pp. ISBN: 9789004447004 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Litian Swen's work Jesuit...

...Joseph Moran Rodrigues the Interpreter: An Early Jesuit in Japan and China . By Michael Cooper , S. J. New York and Tokyo : Weatherhill , 1974 . 416 pp. Notes, Illustrations, Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $13.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 BOOK...

...Ana Carolina Hosne The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia . By Liam Matthew Brockey . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 528 pp. ISBN 9780674416680 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016  2016 Remarkable and well-known...

...Carroll B. Malone The China that was. China as discovered by the Jesuits at the close of the sixteenth century . Translated from the Latin of Nicholas Trigault by L. J. Gallagher . Milwaukee : The Bruce Publishing Company , 1942 . xx, 199 p. $2.25. Copyright © The Association...

...Eugenio Menegon Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China . By Florence Hsia . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2009 . xv, 273. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Florence Hsia's...

...Knud Lundbæk East Meets West: The Jesuits in China, 1582–1773 . Edited by Charles E. Ronan and Bonnie B.C. Oh . Chicago : Loyola University Press , 1988 . xxxiv , 332 pp. $19.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA...

... been published in recent years by Chinese and Japanese scholars detracts considerably from the value of Dr. Michael's work. Cornell University KNIGHT BIGGERSTAFF Missionary and mandarin: the Jesuits at the court of China. BY ARNOLD H. ROWBOTHAM. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press...

...Edgar Wickberg The Jesuits in the Philippines, 1581–1768 . By H. de la Costa , S.J. Cambridge : Harvard Press , 1961 . xiii, 702 , Plates, Maps, Tables, Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 BOOK REVIEWS 93 crats," or "the Haves...

...George Alexander Lensen The Jesuits and the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689). The Diary of Thomas Pereira, S.J. . By Joseph Sebes . Rome : Institutum Historicum S. I. , 1961 . xxxvi , 341 . Appendix, Map, Index. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1963 1963...

... his conviction that significant elements in the Korean popular belief system helped account for the rapid growth of Christianity. Chung has given us sufficient evidence to support this conviction; whether we can term this development "syncretism" remains yet to be proved. JAMES T. BRETZKE Jesuit...

...Nianshen Song Abstract In the early twentieth century, the sovereignty of a territory north of the China-Korea Tumen River border was under severe dispute between China, Korea, and Japan. Based on a Jesuit memoir and map of Korea published in eighteenth-century Europe, a Japanese colonial...

...Arnold H. Rowbotham Abstract It was from the Jesuits that the intelligentsia of Europe learned of the philosophy of Confucius. Many years before their sinophile propaganda had begun to affect the thinking of European scholars the members of the Society of Jesus had determined their attitude towards...

... barriers but also divergent cultural patterns. The translation of Western works into Chinese began near the end of the sixteenth century. Moved by religious enthusiasm, the Jesuits initiated the process and the Protestant missionaries followed. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, translation...

... the Library carries on the legacies of both the Complete Library and the Jesuit project of cross-cultural dialogue and translation, the essay showcases how the Loeb Classical Library of Greek and Roman literatures, established a century ago, is both a model and radically different enterprise from recently...