Silencing of Jesuit Figurist Joseph De Premare in Eighteenth Century - Chin

This analysis of Joseph de Prémare's long unpublished interpretations of ancient Chinese texts, which were suppressed as dangerous and implausible by both his religious superiors and European intellectuals, establishes Prémare as one of the most knowledgeable Sinologists who ever lived.

List of contents

Chapter I: Water

Chapter II: Drama versus History

Chapter III: The Vestigia

Chapter IV: Daoism and Hieroglyphics in the Vestigia

Chapter V: Earth to Earth, Dust to Dust

About the author

Baylor University

Summary

This analysis of Joseph de Prémare’s long unpublished interpretations of ancient Chinese texts, which were suppressed as dangerous and implausible by both his religious superiors and European intellectuals, establishes Prémare as one of the most knowledgeable Sinologists who ever lived.

Product details

• Authors: D. E. Mungello, Mungello D. E.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2023
• EAN: 9781498595667
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9566-7
• No. of pages: 154
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; China, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Asia / China, Asian History