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Harmonious Disagreement: Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends (Asian Thought and Culture) by Yu Liu is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Harmonious Disagreement: Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends (Asian Thought and Culture) about?
The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) changing himself while trying to change the religious faith of the Chinese has been told many times. As a Jesuit, Ricci pushed Christian evangelism by claiming a theistic affinity with Confucianism and by presenting himself as a defender of Confucian orthodoxy from Buddhism. Already in his day, Ricci's unusual cultural adaptation was controversial; not surprisingly, scholarly studies have hitherto focused almost exclusively on variations of this
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Yu Liu
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781433132414
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Religion, Christian
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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