Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled (eBook)

A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds

Dominic Sachsenmaier (Autor)

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2018
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54731-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province, yet led a remarkably global life through scholarly activities and globalizing Catholicism. Dominic Sachsenmaier explores the mid-seventeenth-century world through the lens of Zhu's life, combining the local, regional, and global.

Dominic Sachsenmaier is Chair Professor of Modern China with an Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives at the Department of East Asian Studies and History at the University of Göttingen. He is the author of Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World (2011) and an editor of the Columbia University Press series Columbia Studies in International and Global History.

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Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activities to involvement with globalizing Catholicism, put him in contact with a complex and contradictory set of foreign and domestic forces. In Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled, Dominic Sachsenmaier explores the mid-seventeenth-century world and the worldwide flows of ideas through the lens of Zhu's life, combining the local, regional, and global. Taking particular aspects of Zhu's multiple belongings as a starting point, Sachsenmaier analyzes the contexts that framed his worlds as he balanced a local life and his border-crossing faith. At the local level, the book pays attention to the intellectual, political, and social environments of late Ming and early Qing society, including Confucian learning and the Manchu conquest, questioning the role of ethnic and religious identities. At the global level, it considers how individuals like Zhu were situated within the history of organizations and power structures such as the Catholic Church and early modern empires amid larger transformations and encounters. A strikingly original work, this book is a major contribution to East Asian, transnational, and global history, with important implications for historical approaches and methodologies.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Situating Zhu Zongyuan1. A Local Life and Its Global Contexts2. A Globalizing Organization and Chinese Christian Life3. A Teaching Shaped by Constraints4. Foreign Learnings and Confucian Ways5. European Origins on TrialEpilogueGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54731-5 / 0231547315
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54731-4 / 9780231547314