PRESENTING THE “NESTORIAN” MONUMENT FROM THE LATE SEVENTEENTH TO THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
2011; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 59; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1179/mon.2011.59.1.015
ISSN2057-1690
Autores Tópico(s)Chinese history and philosophy
ResumoResearch on this topic led to some interesting, but at times inaccurate statements about Father Michal Piotr Boym, a Jesuit missionary in China whose writings became a link in the cultural relations of China and Europe during the seventeenth century and later. In the 1876 edition of Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Carl Gustav Adolph Siegfried wrote a biographical sketch of Boym in one sentence, mentioned Boym' s Flora Sinensis of 1656 and his writings about medicine that Andre Cleyer (1634? -1698) edited. He then concluded: Because of the newer literature about China, everything else has become fairly meaningless.1 The term fairly meaningless raises questions concerning nineteenth-century historiography about China. This conference with its focus on Boym seeks to broaden and rectify that discussion. A major thrust of the literature about the Nestorian Monument centers on its discovery or on its being featured in the work of Athanasius Kircher (1601-
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