Unit 1 Readings


READINGS FOR UNIT 1


Matteo Ricci, "Concerning Certain Chinese Customs; Concerning Dress and Other Customs and Peculiarities; Concerning Certain Rites, Superstitious and Otherwise; Religious Sects among the Chinese," all from China in the Sixteenth Century: The Journals of Matthew Ricci: 1583-1610, translated by Louis J. Gallagher, S.J.

Jonathan Spence, Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-hsi, pp. 72-85, 1974.

Edicts and Memorials from the Yung-cheng reign (1722-1736), from Fu Lo-shu, ed., A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations (1644-1820), pp. 138-148.

David E. Mungello, "The Discourse on Chinese Philosophy, Parts I and II," from Leibniz and Confucianism: The Search for Accord, 1977.

David E. Mungello, "Proto-Sinology and the Seventeenth Century European Search for a Universal Language," from Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology.
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