Jesuit Reading of Confucius

Thierry Meynard is a professor of philosophy and religious studies at Sun Yat-sen University and research director of the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies. He has previously authored The Religious Philosophy of Liang Shuming (2011), Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (2011), and co-authored Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China (2014).

“a highly useful contribution to the field of Sinology and the history of Christianity in China.”Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University. In: Journal of Chinese Religions, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2017), pp. 104-105.“This is a well-written work […] of great use to those scholars who have an interest in the work of Jesuit missionaries in China during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in Confucian classics, or, more generally, in translation or Chinese studies.”Arianna Magnani, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 769-770.“In his edition Meynard has added to the Latin original a fluent and elegant English translation as well as the Chinese of the quotations from Confucius. The result is an admirable contribution to a number of fields – the history of the Society and its missions, the history of the study of Chinese, and the reception of Confucius in the West.”Alastair Hamilton, The Warburg Institute. In: The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 58, No. 3 (May 2017), pp. 457-458.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionI. The Genesis of the Sinarum Philosophus and its PrototypesII. The Interweaving of Different Chinese SourcesIII. Editorial Choices in Translating the LunyuIV. The Jesuit Reading of the Lunyu and the Image of ConfuciusV. The Life of Confucius and his PortraitVI. The Reception of the Lunyu through Two Derivative WorksConclusion: Classics in the Global AgeTrilingual Edition of the Lunyu, with NotesThe Life of Confucius, Father of Chinese PhilosophyAppendix. Ming Edition of the Lunyu jizhu with References in the SinarumPhilosophusVocabularyBibliographyIndex