Doing God’s Work: The Missonary’s Task of Translation or Who Makes the Best Jesuits: Comparatists, World Literature Scholars, or Real Jesuits?

This paper takes as its point of departure the sixteenth-century Jesuit construction of Confucianism and the manufacture of the figure of Confucius in the form of translations of the Chinese classics. In examining the Jesuit policy of accommodation in Asia, I ask whether we might not view these effo...

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Main Author: Dorothy Figueira
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Tartu Press 2016-07-01
Series:Interlitteraria
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Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/IL/article/view/12970