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Manifesting the Great Dao - The Jesuit Figurists and the Christianization of the Yijing and Daoist Classics

DEPARTMENT:

Centre for Translation

CONYTRIBUTOR / SPEAKER:

WEI, Sophie Ling-Chia

RELEASE DATE:

2017

LENGTH:

109 Minutes

VIDEO TYPE:

Scholarly Talks

During the early Qing dynasty (17-18th century), the Jesuit Figurists, including Joachim Bouvet, Jean-François Foucquet, and Joseph de Prémare, espoused the view that symbols, figures, numbers, terms, and Chinese characters embedded in the Chinese classics proved that the Chinese people had believed in the God of Christianity since antiquity. Unlike Matteo Ricci and other Jesuits who were more accommodated to Confucianism, the first batch of Jesuit Figurists accommodated themselves to the Dao of the Yijing 易經 (the Book of Changes) and other Daoist classics. In their intra-lingual translations and handwritten Chinese manuscripts which they submitted to the Kangxi Emperor and the Chinese literati, they not only identified Tian 天 and Di 帝 as equivalent to the Deus of the West, but also demonstrated in their theological interpretation that the Dao was an alias for the Christian God. In their work, each Figurist traced an individual trajectory: Bouvet, the principal Figurist, was led by his intensive studies of the Chinese classics and his knowledge in mathematics; Prémare attended to sounds and dialects; Foucquet turned to astronomical and calendrical studies. Each of their individual journeys was a journey of unearthing God's mystic messages out of the Chinese classics and drawing parallels between them and the Christian stories; in every way they could act the part of the Chinese literati for the purpose of proselytization. This talk will view each of these Jesuit Figurists in their different roles and construct a profile out of three separate aspects: their translations of the Yijing, their manuscripts discussing the Dao, and their translation activities and networks. The translations and commentaries written by each Figurist were greatly influential to European understanding and perception of Chinese religions and philosophies, and even influenced later translators of the Daoist classics. Previous scholarship has failed to adequately analyze this group of Jesuits, nor has it placed proper scholarly attention on their works. By re-assessing the Jesuit's accommodation policy and reviewing their translations and commentaries, I will attempt to fill that gap and, furthermore, shed light on the roles these Jesuit Figurists/translators played within translation history.

Manifesting the Great Dao - The Jesuit Figurists and the Christianization of the Yijing and Daoist Classics

部門:

翻譯學研究中心

講者:

WEI, Sophie Ling-Chia

發佈日期:

2017

影片長度:

109 分鐘

影片類型:

學術論壇

Manifesting the Great Dao - The Jesuit Figurists and the Christianization of the Yijing and Daoist Classics

部门:

翻译学研究中心

讲者:

WEI, Sophie Ling-Chia

发布日期:

2017

影片长度:

109 分钟

影片类型:

学术论坛

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