Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 (repost)
Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 By Liam Matthew Brockey
Publisher: Belknap Press 2007 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 0674024486 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Belknap Press 2007 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 0674024486 | PDF | 2 MB
A masterful study…New scholarship using Roman and Chinese sources leads to a much more complex story of Roman Catholicism in China during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. With his deft analysis of a surprisingly underutilized source on the history of the Jesuit mission—Portuguese language letters and reports in ecclesiastical archives in Portugal and Rome&mdash Brockey has constructed a new chronology and trajectory for the Jesuit mission itself, placing it in what he calls “a proper European context.” Intentionally or not, he also brings the Jesuits back into the increasingly complex history of Chinese religious life.