The Interpretation of Tang Christianity in the Late Ming China Mission: Manuel Dias Jr.’s Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (1644)

The Interpretation of Tang Christianity in the Late Ming China Mission: Manuel Dias Jr.’s Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (1644)Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia 8Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/SIA6KGGR/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MatteoNicolini-ZaniThe Interpretation of Tang Christianity in the Late Ming China Mission: Manuel Dias Jr.’s Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (1644)http://syriaca.org/cbss/SIA6KGGRhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/SIA6KGGRhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/SIA6KGGRLeidenBrill2023Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia 8The book contains the first annotated English translation of the <i>Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching”</i> (1644) by the Jesuit Manuel Dias Jr. and other late Ming Chinese Christian sources interpreting the “venerable ancestor” of the Jesuit mission, namely, the mission of the Church of the East in Tang China. Based on this documentation, the book reconstructs the process of “appropriation” by Jesuit missionaries and their Chinese converts of ancient traces of Christianity that were discovered in China in the first half of the seventeenth century, such as the Xi’an stele (781) and other Christian relics, Nicolini-Zani, Matteo. The Interpretation of Tang Christianity in the Late Ming China Mission: Manuel Dias Jr.’s Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching” (1644). Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia 8. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Matteo Nicolini-Zani, The Interpretation of Tang Christianity in the Late Ming China Mission: Manuel Dias Jr.’s Correct Explanation of the Tang “Stele Eulogy on the Luminous Teaching (1644), Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia 8 (Leiden: Brill, 2023).