The Jesuits as Participants in the Late Ming Publishing Boom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Akin
Keyword(s):  
Late Ming ◽  
Matteo Ricci ◽  
Production Distribution

This chapter takes a Ming-centric approach to the Jesuit cartographic project under Matteo Ricci and his immediate successors, discussing reactions to the missionaries’ maps and their citation in works published by Ming scholars. Of all the empires in which the Jesuits set foot, the Ming was the first in which they encountered an already highly developed cartographic culture, leading to an unusually prominent role for cartography in their proselytization. Examining the issues the Jesuits addressed through maps, as well as their methods of production, distribution, and influence, this chapter argues for an understanding of their publications as part of the late Ming publishing boom.

scholarly journals The Westerner: Matteo Ricci’s World Map and the Quandaries of European Identity in the Late Ming Dynasty

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-30
Author(s):  
Florin-Stefan Morar
Keyword(s):  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Late Ming ◽  
Matteo Ricci ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Ming Dynasty ◽  
The Late Ming Dynasty ◽  
New Interpretation

Beginning with the late Ming dynasty, Europeans in China assumed the name of “people from the Great Western Ocean” (Daxiyang ren 大西洋人), often shortened to “Ocean people” (yang ren 洋人) or “Western people” (xi ren 西人). What is the origin of this name? This paper seeks to answer this question by suggesting a new interpretation of the cartography of Matteo Ricci. Much of the scholarly debate about the Ricci world map revolves around the notion that it was a scientific artifact meant to present an accurate image of the world to a willfully ignorant, but otherwise impressive civilization. This paper argues instead that the purpose of Ricci’s cartographic project was to sustain a new identity, that of the Westerner and of the “Great West,” notions created in translation by borrowing and modifying Ming China’s geopolitical vocabulary.

Exemplary Sodomites: Chivalry and Love in Late Ming Culture

NAN Nü ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Vitiello
Keyword(s):  
Male Friendship ◽  
Late Ming ◽  
Matteo Ricci ◽  
Jesuit Missionaries ◽  
Ming Fiction

AbstractThis essay explores the ideological allegiances between the chivalric (xia) and the romantic (qing) in late Ming fiction and culture. Focusing on notions of friendship and love between men and their role in the formation of the late Ming romantic ideal, it also discusses the discourse on sodomy articulated in two treatises on male friendship by the Jesuit missionaries Matteo Ricci and Martino Martini, and the hypothesis of a late Ming homoerotic fashion.

From Missionary Writings to Chinese Christian Texts: An Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chloë Starr
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Chinese Christians ◽  
Late Ming ◽  
Matteo Ricci ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Theological Training

Chapter One presents three texts from the late sixteenth and early to mid seventeenth centuries to show the evolution from a Chinese language to a Chinese-authored theology. The theology of the early encounters of Chinese with Christianity was naturally strongly influenced by missionaries’ own backgrounds and theological training, tempered over time by their improved grasp of Chinese language and understanding of what was most helpful or acceptable to their audience. As missionaries’ appreciation of Chinese literary texts developed, and as Chinese Christians began writing their own philosophical essays or evangelistic tracts, the form and scope of the dialogue evolved. The three texts discussed in Chapter One (catechisms by Michele Ruggieri and Matteo Ricci and a record of conversations between missionaries and Li Jiubiao and other late Ming scholars) trace the development from missionary to Chinese theology.

Conceptual foundations for the development of J.G.Turner’s general sociological theory: Metatheoretical ideas, basic concepts and analytical scheme

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-60
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Reznik
Keyword(s):  
Social Evolution ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Analytical Scheme ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

The article discusses the conceptual foundations of the development of the general sociological theory of J.G.Turner. These foundations are metatheoretical ideas, basic concepts and an analytical scheme. Turner began to develop a general sociological theory with a synthesis of metatheoretical ideas of social forces and social selection. He formulated a synthetic metatheoretical statement: social forces cause selection pressures on individuals and force them to change the patterns of their social organization and create new types of sociocultural formations to survive under these pressures. Turner systematized the basic concepts of his theorizing with the allocation of micro-, meso- and macro-levels of social reality. On this basis, he substantiated a simple conceptual scheme of social dynamics. According to this scheme, the forces of macrosocial dynamics of the population, production, distribution, regulation and reproduction cause social evolution. These forces force individual and corporate actors to structurally adapt their communities in altered circumstances. Such adaptation helps to overcome or avoid the disintegration consequences of these forces. The initial stage of Turner's general theorizing is a kind of audit, modification, modernization and systematization of the conceptual apparatus of sociology. The initial results obtained became the basis for the development of his conception of the dynamics of functional selection in the social world.

Challenges and threats to the economic security in the ferrous metallurgy

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1527-1544
Author(s):  
I.L. Ryabkov ◽  
N.N. Yashalova
Keyword(s):  
Ferrous Metallurgy ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Ferrous Metal ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Corporate Strategies ◽  
Group Methods ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Market Strategies

Subject. The article focuses on market strategies of the Russian enterprises operating in the ferrous metallurgy. Objectives. The study is to analyze corporate strategies the leading ferrous metal manufacturers use in the Russian Federation, such as NLMK Group, Severstal, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, EVRAZ Group. Methods. The study interprets public financial statements and methods of the logic, intuitive and comparative analysis. Results. We analyze market strategies of the Russian metal manufacturers, determine their development priorities and competitive advantages and weaknesses. We describe the impact of various threats and measures metallurgical companies undertake to eliminate them. Conclusions and Relevance. We sorted out possible threats and exposures of the Russian metallurgic companies' economic security and traced the dynamics of their significance for 2015 to 2019. Key threats relate to policies, economy, external and internal market, regulations and laws, production, distribution and financial management, consumption, IT, social welfare and environment.

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