Rooted in Hope: China – Religion – Christianity / In der Hoffnung verwurzelt: China – Religion – Christentum

Barbara Hoster is Editor at the Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin, Germany.Dirk Kuhlmann is Editor at the Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin, Germany.Zbigniew Wesołowski SVD is Editor-in-Chief of the publications of the Monumenta Serica Institute and Professor of Sinology and Science of Religions at the Philosophical-Theological Faculty S.V.D. St. Augustin, Germany.

• Volume 1Foreword; Tabula gratulatoria; Congratulatory Poem to Fr. Roman Malek; Bibliography of Roman Malek s.v.d.Chinese Intellectual HistoryNicolas Standaert: Early Sino-European Contacts and the Birth of the Modern Concept of Religion; Paul Rule: The Dao of Ecology; Jiang Ryh-Shin: Laozi and the Formation of Philosophical Daoism. Its Formation as a School in Zhuangzi (in Chinese); Christian Schwermann: Economic Justice in Ancient China? A Few Thoughts on Distribution Policy (in German); Tiziana Lippiello: On the Difficult Practice of the Mean in Ordinary Life. Teachings from the Zhongyong; Wolfgang Kubin: A Life-long Anxiety and Not the Calamity of Merely One Morning. Towards Mengzi’s Understanding of Man’s Distress and the Problem of Intellectuals in History; Zbigniew Weso?owski s.v.d.: Experiences of Transcendence in China between the Past and the Present. A Striking Continuity (in German); Paul U. Unschuld: The Origins of Chinese Medicine. Secular Natural Science and the Quest for Existential Autonomy (in German)History of Christianity in ChinaMatteo Nicolini-Zani: Xu Guangqi, Disciple of the Luminous Teaching. A Study of the Stone Inscription for the Church of the Luminous Teaching (Jingjiaotang beiji) at Jiangzhou, around 1632; Monika Miazek-M?czy?ska: The Roman Troubles of Michael Boym s.j. Described by Thomas Szpot Dunin in Historiae Sinarum Imperii and Collectanea Historiae Sinensis; Chiara Piccinini: Education to Filial Piety at the Time of the Kangxi Emperor. A French Translation of the Yuzhi Xiaojing yanyi xu in a Manuscript Preserved at Biblioteca Ambrosiana; Gianni Criveller p.i.m.e.: The Chinese Rites Controversy. A Narrative of an Ill-fated Misunderstanding; Claudia von Collani: The True Mother of the China Mission. Kilian Stumpf’s Succincta Chronologica Relatio; Rita Widmaier: The Significance of Dyadic in Leibniz’s Theory of Mis