Friendship and Hospitality by Dongfeng Xu HARDBACK 9781438484952

State University of New York Press

Friendship and Hospitality\nby Dongfeng Xu\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Dongfeng Xu\nTitle: Friendship and Hospitality\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Asian history\nPublisher: State University of New York Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781438484952\nISBN-10: 143848495X\nRRP: \u00A372.27\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nOffers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross-cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China.\nThe Jesuit mission to China more than four hundred years ago has been the subject of sustained scholarly investigation for centuries. Focusing on the concepts of friendship and hospitality as they were both theorized and practiced by the Jesuit missionaries and their Confucian hosts, this book offers.