Sher Shiueh Li: 1 book
Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China
Two Studies with an Annotated Translation of Alfonso Vagnones "Illustrations of the Grand Dao"
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Used by Classical and Medieval Western schools to teach rhetoric, a chreia is a brief moral story attributed to a famous historical figure. In Late Ming China, the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone, also named Gao Yizhi, and the Chinese scholar-official Han Yun collaborated on a project to write down...
