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.
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.
發表於2024-12-23
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上篇:利瑪竇這個人 一個外國人,不遠萬裏來到中國,這是什麼精神?這就是那時傳教士們一心的嚮往:願普天之下,皆播撒甘霖,願濛蔽的雙眼,衝破那黑暗。為瞭這個理想,他們披荊斬棘,飄洋過海,忍受著寒冷、飢餓、憎恨、嘲笑、輕視、侮辱、監獄、疾病,甚至於死亡,忍受著疏...
評分 評分最近纔注意到史景遷。 此前看到楊念群批判中國當代史學的文章(http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4d4a41600100096r.html)。鑒於“當今中國史學完全喪失瞭講故事的能力”、“中國當今史學完全喪失瞭想像力”、“中國當今史學像個鸚鵡學舌的理論秀藝人”這三大罪狀,楊呼籲給中...
評分無意中買到這本書,對我來說真是意外之喜,對於這本書以及記憶宮殿的興趣,正如後記中所說的,一般是來自於TVB的讀心神探,塔它讓這種似乎神跡般的記憶術在我心中充滿瞭好奇和神秘感,但是每次買到瞭書好像都徒有其錶,這次陰差陽錯竟然買到瞭電視劇中同款書籍,真是圓瞭我一個...
評分利瑪竇遠渡重洋來到明代中國傳教,可謂睏難重重,因為這裏的文化、社會風俗、宗教和政治環境、中國人對待外國人的態度等等無不讓他時常感到睏惑、甚至置身危險處境。但他選擇通過掌握中國的語言文化,堅持在中國開展傳教事業直到生命的最後一刻也從未動搖,對此可以說我是真的...
圖書標籤: 史景遷 Christianity ? 明史 基督教 曆史 利瑪竇 中國
a strangely beautiful book
評分a strangely beautiful book
評分a strangely beautiful book
評分a strangely beautiful book
評分a strangely beautiful book
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