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

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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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读书笔记403：利玛窦的记忆宫殿 从武汉回宁波的高铁长达五个多小时，在孩子的吵闹声中把这部书读完。昨晚回到酒店的时候，躺在床上眯了一回，被冻醒的时候已然是十二点了。在豆瓣书店挑了这部书，女老板很是热情，结账的时候又推荐了两部书，于是一并拿了。 史景迁的传记手法与...  

上篇：利玛窦这个人 一个外国人，不远万里来到中国，这是什么精神？这就是那时传教士们一心的向往：愿普天之下，皆播撒甘霖，愿蒙蔽的双眼，冲破那黑暗。为了这个理想，他们披荆斩棘，飘洋过海，忍受着寒冷、饥饿、憎恨、嘲笑、轻视、侮辱、监狱、疾病，甚至于死亡，忍受着疏...

利玛窦远渡重洋来到明代中国传教，可谓困难重重，因为这里的文化、社会风俗、宗教和政治环境、中国人对待外国人的态度等等无不让他时常感到困惑、甚至置身危险处境。但他选择通过掌握中国的语言文化，坚持在中国开展传教事业直到生命的最后一刻也从未动摇，对此可以说我是真的...  

上篇：利玛窦这个人 一个外国人，不远万里来到中国，这是什么精神？这就是那时传教士们一心的向往：愿普天之下，皆播撒甘霖，愿蒙蔽的双眼，冲破那黑暗。为了这个理想，他们披荆斩棘，飘洋过海，忍受着寒冷、饥饿、憎恨、嘲笑、轻视、侮辱、监狱、疾病，甚至于死亡，忍受着疏...

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