The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

Jonathan D. Spence (Chinese name: 史景遷, August 11, 1936– ) is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He has been Sterling Professor of History at Yale University since 1993. His most famous book is The Search for Modern China, which has become one of the standard texts on the last several hundred years of Chinese history. A prolific author, reviewer, and essayist, his other books include The Death of Woman Wang (1978); The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (1984); The Question of Hu (1987); Chinese Roundabout: Essays on History and Culture; The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980; The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds; and God's Chinese Son (1996). His research often takes him to many Chinese universities.

出版者:Faber & Faber

作者:Jonathan D. Spence

页数:350

出版时间:1985-4-15

价格:GBP 15.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780571132393

图书标签:史景迁Christianity？明史基督教历史利玛窦中国

As the first great age of European naval exploration came to an end in the late sixteenth century, merchants and missionaries began to travel to the Far East in search of new markets and new harvests of souls.

One of the most extraordinary of these travellers was Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit who left his native Italy in 1577 and journeyed first to India and then to China, where he lived and worked from 1583 until his death in 1610.

To capture the complex emotional and religious drama of Ricci's life, Jonathan Spence has shifted away from conventional biographical techniques and has placed his subject in a structure of images that Ricci himself composed. One set of these images derives from four crucial moments in the Bible, which Ricci introduced to China by means of wood engravings with his appnded commentaries, one set is found in a book on the art of memory, which Ricci composed in Chinese and circulated among members of the Ming dynasty's elite.

The result is not only a rich and compelling narrative about Ricci's life in Italy, India and China, but also a significant work of global history, in which intellectual, social, military, maritime and religious themes are drawn together, juxtaposing the world of Counter-Reformation Europe with that of Ming China. The Memory Palace that Ricci attempted to describe in print is transformed in Spence's extraordinary book into a frame for Ricci's life and a metaphor for the hopes and fears of a largely forgotten world.

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說也奇怪，中國古人的教學實踐莫不遵奉「念、背、打」三字真言，背書居於中心。照理說背書背了幾千年總該有一套背書的學問才是。可從史景遷的敘述看來，好像事與願違，好像一直要等到利瑪竇在1596年在南昌寫成《記法》還公開傳授之後，記憶術才算在中國形諸載籍有了可考的歷史...  

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