@article{1438717,
      recid = {1438717},
      author = {Meynard, Thierry, and Canaris, Daniel,},
      title = {A brief response on the controversies over Shangdi,  Tianshen and Linghun by Niccolò Longobardo /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {This book represents the first critical edition and  scholarly annotated translation of a pioneering report on  the predicament of cross-cultural understanding at the dawn  of globalization, titled "A Brief Response on the  Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun"/"Resposta  breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien Xin, Lim hoen"  which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit  missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and  profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian  philosophy. The book restores the focus on Longobardos own  intellectual concerns, while also reproducing and analyzing  all the Chinese-language annotations on the previously  unpublished Portuguese and Latin manuscripts. Moreover, it  meticulously modernizes all romanizations with standard  Hanyu pinyin and identifies, on the basis of archival  research, most of Longobardos Chinese interlocutors, thus  providing new insights into how the Jesuits networked with  Chinese scholars in the late Ming. In this way, it opens up  this seminal text to Sinologists and global historians  exploring Europes first intellectual exchanges with China.  In addition, the book presents four introductory essays,  written by the editors and two prominent scholars on the  Jesuit China mission. These essays comprehensively  reconstruct the historical and intellectual context of  Longobardos report, stressing that it cannot be viewed  purely as a product of Sino-European cultural exchange, but  also as an outgrowth of both exegetic debates within Europe  and of European experiences across Asia, especially in  Japan. Hence this critical edition will greatly contribute  to a more globalized view of the Jesuit China mission},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1438717},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0451-5},
}