Foreigners and outsiders. Chinese views of Jesuit missionaries in the late Ming period

ANA CAROLINA HOSNE

Oxford

Conferencia; University of Oxford China Studies Seminar Series; 2022

Universidad de Oxford

This lecture analyses different views of the Jesuit missionaries in late Ming China, with a special focus on their status of “foreigners.” The missionaries’ activities on different fronts, i.e. religious, scientific, philosophic, among others, rendered itself for different appreciations of their presence in late Ming China. This presentation examines how the status of “foreigners” in different sources could be oriented to inclusive views of the missionaries on local soil or, on the contrary, those laying stress on the need of exclusion of these Europeans.