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A Chinese Jesuit Catechism: Giulio Aleni's Four Character Classic 四字經文

A Chinese Jesuit Catechism: Giulio Aleni's Four Character Classic 四字經文

Clark, Anthony E.

Hardcover

Series: Christianity in Modern China

Literary CriticismReligion General International Relations

ISBN10: 9811596239
ISBN13: 9789811596230
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 10 2021
Pages: 105
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book is the first scholarly study of the famous Jesuit Chinese children's primer, the Four Character Classic, written by Giulio Aleni (1582-1649) while living in Fujian, China. This book also includes masterful translations of both Wang Yinglin's (1551-1602) hallowed Confucian Three Character Classic and Aleni's Chinese catechism that was published during the Qing (1644-1911). Clark's careful reading of the Four Character Classic provides new insights into an area of the Jesuit mission in early modern China that has so far been given little attention, the education of children. This book underscores how Aleni's published work functions as a good example of the Jesuit use of normative Chinese print culture to serve the catechetical exigencies of the Catholic mission in East Asia, particularly his meticulous imitation of Confucian children's primers to promote decidedly Christian content.

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