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Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595â1700
The Chinese Imprint
Series: - Library of the Written Word, Volume: 101
- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 101
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This book discusses how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in printed works produced in the Dutch Republic between 1595 and 1700. By focusing on books, newspapers, learned journals, and pamphlets, Trude Dijkstra sheds new light on the cultural encounter between China and western Europe in the early modern period. Form, content, and material-technical aspects of different media in Dutch and French are analysed, providing novel insights into the ways in which readers could take note of Chinese religion and philosophy. This study thereby demonstrates that there was no singular image of China and its religion and philosophy, but rather a varied array of notions on the subject.
Trude Dijkstra, Ph.D. (University of Amsterdam, 2019) is a visiting postdoctoral scholar at the Warburg Institute, London on a Niels Stensen Fellowship. She has published on cultural encounters between China and Europe, early modern learned journals, and Confucianism in the Dutch Republic.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Colour Illustrations
Introduction
1 Chinaâs Religion and Philosophy in Dutch-Made Books, 1595â1687
â1âEarly Contacts between China and the Dutch Republic
â2âThe Devil in Calicut
â3âJesuits and Calvinists on Chinese Religion and Philosophy
2 The Dutch Commodification of Confucius
â1âPopular Works on China
â2âJacob van Meurs
â3âCompilations of All Things China
3 The Vernacular and Latin Translations of Confucius
â1âAthanasius Kircher
â2âThe First Latin Translations of Confucius
â3âThe 1675 Dutch Edition of Confucius
â4âThe 1687 Jesuit Edition of Confucius in Latin
â5âTranslating Confucius Sinarum Philosophus
4 Confucius in Dutch-Made Learned Journals
â1âThe Learned Journal in the European World of Print
â2âThe Erudite Press and China before 1687
â3âThe Antiquity of China
â4âCritiquing Confucius
5 China and the Chinese Rites Controversy in Dutch Newspapers
â1âPublishing News in the Dutch Republic
â2âNews from China
â3âReports on China in Dutch-Made Newspapers
â4âThe Middle Kingdom in French-Language Newspapers
â5âThe Chinese Rites Controversy in the Public Eye
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
Colour Illustrations
Introduction
1 Chinaâs Religion and Philosophy in Dutch-Made Books, 1595â1687
â1âEarly Contacts between China and the Dutch Republic
â2âThe Devil in Calicut
â3âJesuits and Calvinists on Chinese Religion and Philosophy
2 The Dutch Commodification of Confucius
â1âPopular Works on China
â2âJacob van Meurs
â3âCompilations of All Things China
3 The Vernacular and Latin Translations of Confucius
â1âAthanasius Kircher
â2âThe First Latin Translations of Confucius
â3âThe 1675 Dutch Edition of Confucius
â4âThe 1687 Jesuit Edition of Confucius in Latin
â5âTranslating Confucius Sinarum Philosophus
4 Confucius in Dutch-Made Learned Journals
â1âThe Learned Journal in the European World of Print
â2âThe Erudite Press and China before 1687
â3âThe Antiquity of China
â4âCritiquing Confucius
5 China and the Chinese Rites Controversy in Dutch Newspapers
â1âPublishing News in the Dutch Republic
â2âNews from China
â3âReports on China in Dutch-Made Newspapers
â4âThe Middle Kingdom in French-Language Newspapers
â5âThe Chinese Rites Controversy in the Public Eye
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
All interested in early modern encounters between Asia and Europe, and anyone concerned with printing and publishing in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic.