Chinese Theology and Translation: The Christianity of the Jesuit Figurists and Their Christianized Yijing

ISBN-13: 9781032088280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 166 str.

Sophie Ling Wei

Opis

This book uncovers the Jesuits mystic theological interpretation in the translation of the Book of Changes (the Yijing) in their mission in China.

Spis treści

1 Introduction; 2 In Other Words—Jesuit Figurists’ Intralingual Translation in their Chinese Manuscripts of the Yijing; 3 The Making of Jesus in the Hands of the Jesuit Figurists— Religious Emotions Transformed in the Translations of the Yijing; 4 The Classical and Vernacular Use of Chinese Language in the Jesuit Figurists’ Reinterpretation of the Yijing; 5 Jesuit Figurists’ Written Space—Figurist Imitation of Chinese Literati in their Re-interpretation of The Yijing; 6 Deciphering God’s Encoded Messages with Divine Language —Jesuit Figurist Theological Interpretation of the Yijing’s Numbers; 7 Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Sophie Ling-chia Wei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.