This presentation aims to offer a contribution to the dialogue between book historians of Europe and book historians of China by looking at the production of written texts by the China Jesuits. Through their books, the missionaries were able to interact fruitfully with Chinese literati, even at the cost of generating misunderstandings with respect to their initial intentions. Nontheless, a less self-referential way of looking at cross-cultural contacts allows to examine these misunderstandings not as failures but as creative appropriations generating new knowledge.
Jesuits, books, and 'cultures of text' in early modern China / Corsi, Elisabetta. - In: LA BIBLIOFILIA. - ISSN 0006-0941. - (2023), pp. 1-13. (Intervento presentato al convegno Bringing Together China and the West: A Symposium to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Chinese University of Hong Kong — The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library. Hong Kong, 10 February 2023 tenutosi a Hong Kong).
Jesuits, books, and 'cultures of text' in early modern China
Corsi Elisabetta
Writing – Review & Editing
2023
Abstract
This presentation aims to offer a contribution to the dialogue between book historians of Europe and book historians of China by looking at the production of written texts by the China Jesuits. Through their books, the missionaries were able to interact fruitfully with Chinese literati, even at the cost of generating misunderstandings with respect to their initial intentions. Nontheless, a less self-referential way of looking at cross-cultural contacts allows to examine these misunderstandings not as failures but as creative appropriations generating new knowledge.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
