In the Light and Shadow of an Emperor Tomas Pereira SJ 1645 1708 the Kangxi Emperor and the Jesuit Mission in China 1st Edition by Artur K Wardega, Antonio Vasconcelos de Saldanha ISBN 1443838543 9781443838542

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ISBN 10: 1443838543 
ISBN 13: 9781443838542
Author: Artur K Wardega, Antonio Vasconcelos de Saldanha

The present collection was written to commemorate the third centenary of the death of the Portuguese Jesuit, Tomás Pereira (1645–1708). Dealing with some of the most decisive and controversial moments in the history of the Jesuit mission in China during the Kangxi era (1662–1722), these essays were produced by an international team of scholars and cover a wide range of topics that reflect a permanent academic interest, in Europe and America as well as in China, in the history of the Catholic mission in China, Sino-Russian diplomacy, the history of Western science and music in China, intercultural history, and history of art.

While the names of such missionaries as Matteo Ricci, Adam Schall and Ferdinand Verbiest are well known, Pereira has been relatively neglected, and this volume seeks to redress that imbalance. Pereira was important as a musician and diplomat and was closer to the Kangxi emperor than any other Westerner, something that enabled him to exert considerable influence for the protection of the Chinese Christians and also to further the interests of Portugal in China. However, towards the end of his life he saw his efforts undermined by the damaging consequences of the papal legation to China led by Charles-Thomas Maillard de Tournon.

In the Light and Shadow of an Emperor Tomas Pereira SJ 1645 1708 the Kangxi Emperor and the Jesuit Mission in China 1st Table of contents:

1. Root and branch: The place of the Portuguese Jesuits in the early modern China mission (pp. 6–37)

2. Tomás Pereira and the Jesuits of the court of the Kangxi emperor (pp. 38–63)

3. Father Tomás Pereira, SJ, the Kangxi emperor and the court Westerners (pp. 64–84)

4. The image of Tomás Pereira in Qing dynasty documents (pp. 85–111)

5. From the earthly court to the heavenly court: The death and funeral of Tomás Pereira (pp. 112–143)

6. The last imperial honours: From Tomás Pereira to the Eulogium Europeorum Doctorum in 1711 (pp. 144–226)

7. “Amicíssimos”, Tomás Pereira and Zhao Chang (pp. 228–251)

8. The Fô and the Xekiâ: Tomás Pereira’s critical description of Chinese Buddhism (pp. 252–274)

9. “Ubi Dux, Ibi Curia”: Kangxi’s imperial hunts and the Jesuits as courtiers (pp. 275–294)

10. “Riding a crane she ascended to the distant realms”: the last memorial (27 January 1688) of Ferdinand Verbiest (pp. 295–305)

11. The “Edict of tolerance”: A textual history and reading (pp. 308–358)

12. Tomás Pereira’s appeal to the Portuguese Jesuits and missionary recruitment to China (pp. 359–403)

13. Ferdinand Verbiest’s letter of 1678 to king Afonso VI of Portugal and the possible role of Tomás Pereira in its conception (pp. 404–421)

14. Defending European astronomy in China… against Europe: Tomás Pereira and the directorate of astronomy in 1688 (pp. 424–453)

15. Resolution of some questions about Tomás Pereira’s arrival in Beijing and service at the directorate of astronomy (pp. 454–467)

16. Seventeenth-century Jesuit surveys for a secure overland route from Europe to China (pp. 468–501)

17. The Jesuits at Nerchinsk: Language, war, and ethnicity (pp. 504–511)

18. Tomás Pereira, Jing Tian and Nerchinsk: Evolving world‑view during the Kangxi period (pp. 518–529)

19. Mission by music: The challenge of translating European music into Chinese in the Lülü Zuanyao (pp. 532–545)

20. The organist and organ builder Tomás Pereira: Some new data on his activity (pp. 546–567)

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