
Matteo Ricci’s Road to Compatibility Content

Preface By Zhong Wen
Chapter 01 Looking at World Peace in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 02 World Peace Requires Cultural Exchange
Chapter 03 Similarities and Differences Between the Opposing Sides of the Reformation
Chapter 04 The Reformation Accompanied the Age of Discovery
Chapter 05 The History of the Growth and Expansion of the Jesuit Order
Chapter 06 Outline of Matteo Ricci’s Missionary Work in China
Chapter 07 St. Francis Xavier, Patron of Missionaries
Chapter 08 The Mentor and Trailblazer of Matteo Ricci
Chapter 09 The First Sinologist of the West
Chapter 10 Matteo Ricci’s Transformation into a Chinese Literatus
Chapter 11 Matteo Ricci Enters Guangdong
Chapter 12 Matteo Ricci in Zhaoqing and Shaozhou
Chapter 13 Matteo Ricci’s Impressions of Nanjing
Chapter 14 Breaking Ground and Sowing Seeds — A Continuing Story
Chapter 15 Two Adventurous Journeys on the Grand Canal
Chapter 16 The Striking Clock That Allowed Him to Stay in Beijing
Chapter 17 Matteo Ricci’s Stories of Friendship
Chapter 18 Ricci’s Theory of Friendship
Chapter 19 Xie Taiqing’s First Encounter with Matteo Ricci
Chapter 20 Matteo Ricci’s Account of Xu Guangqi
Chapter 21 Xu Guangqi’s Association with Matteo Ricci
Chapter 22 The Various Confusions of Matteo Ricci
Chapter 23 Ricci Could Not Understand Politics
Chapter 24 The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven Conceals Christ
Chapter 25 The Intellectual Predicament of Catholicism
Chapter 26 What Is “Ricci’s Rule”?
Chapter 27 The Translation of “Shangdi” and “Tian”
Chapter 28 The Entanglement Between “Shangdi” and Catholicism
Chapter 29 How Matteo Ricci Opened a Window to the World
Chapter 30 Messenger of Christ or Citizen of the World
Chapter 31 Cultural Adaptation and Scholarly Evangelization
Chapter 32 An Extraordinary Pilgrimage
Chapter 33 The Rise and Decline of Catholicism in China
Chapter 34 The First Introduction of Western Books on China
Chapter 35 The Eighteenth-Century Craze for China
Chapter 36 Viewing Exchange from the Positive Side
Chapter 37 Viewing Cultural Exchange from Its Negative Aspects
Chapter 38 Europeans Become Disciples of China
Chapter 39 The Modern Lunar Calendar: A Knockoff of Western Europe
Chapter 40 How to Continue the Dialogue of Civilizations
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