Introduction: Confucius and Confucianism (original) (raw)
Introduction to A Concise Companion to Confucius (Wiley Blackwell, 2017)
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www.sino-platonic.org SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS is an occasional series edited by Victor H. Mair. The purpose of the series is to make available to specialists and the interested public the results of research that, because of its unconventional or controversial nature, might otherwise go unpublished. The editor actively encourages younger, not yet well established, scholars and independent authors to submit manuscripts for consideration. Contributions in any of the major scholarly languages of the world, including Romanized Modern Standard Mandarin (MSM) and Japanese, are acceptable. In special circumstances, papers written in one of the Sinitic topolects (fangyan) may be considered for publication. Although the chief focus of Sino-Platonic Papers is on the intercultural relations of China with other peoples, challenging and creative studies on a wide variety of philological subjects will be entertained. This series is not the place for safe, sober, and stodgy presentations. Sino-Platon...
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All four volumes are edited and proofread by Thierry Meynard. Volume 1 comprises three parts: Couplet's "Letter to French King Louis XIV," the "Prolegomena" jointly composed by Prospero Intorcetta and Couplet, and Couplet's conclusion, to which is attached a portrait of Confucius in one page as well as a brief biography of Confucius the founder of Chinese philosophy. The 169-page "Prolegomena" describes an unprecedentedly profound cross-cultural dialogue and doctrinal contention between Christianity and Confucianism, whose protagonists are the early Jesuit missionaries and the Chinese literati who converted to Catholicism in the 16th and 17th centuries. Given their decades of mission practice in China, the pious, erudite, and industrious missionaries certainly had a good story to tell. Bearing in mind the European reader's concern and interest, Prospero Intorcetta in the first part gives a general introduction to the three major traditions in China-Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, and then a hermeneutical guide for understanding Chinese classics (in particular Confucian ones) as well as the authoritative exegetical or philosophical commentaries which accompany these canonical texts. On that basis, Couplet in the second part switches the topic to the work of the Jesuit missionaries in China and ends with a defense of Matteo Ricci's mission strategy. Volume 2 is the Chinese translation of the Latin text of the Great Learning (Daxue 大學) and the Doctrine of the Mean (Zhongyong 中庸), followed by
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