Dominic Sachsenmaier

Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled (eBook, ePUB)

A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds

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Produktbeschreibung

Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activities to involvement with globalizing Catholicism, put him in contact with a complex and contradictory set of foreign and domestic forces.

In Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled, Dominic Sachsenmaier explores the mid-seventeenth-century world and the worldwide flows of ideas through the lens of Zhu's life, combining the local, regional, and global. Taking particular aspects of Zhu's multiple belongings as a starting point, Sachsenmaier analyzes the contexts that framed his worlds as he balanced a local life and his border-crossing faith. At the local level, the book pays attention to the intellectual, political, and social environments of late Ming and early Qing society, including Confucian learning and the Manchu conquest, questioning the role of ethnic and religious identities. At the global level, it considers how individuals like Zhu were situated within the history of organizations and power structures such as the Catholic Church and early modern empires amid larger transformations and encounters. A strikingly original work, this book is a major contribution to East Asian, transnational, and global history, with important implications for historical approaches and methodologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231547314
• Artikelnr.: 52532496

Autorenporträt

Dominic Sachsenmaier is Chair Professor of Modern China with a Special Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen. He is the author of Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World (2011) and an editor of the Columbia University Press series Columbia Studies in International and Global History.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Situating Zhu Zongyuan
1. A Local Life and Its Global Contexts
2. A Globalizing Organization and Chinese Christian Life
3. A Teaching Shaped by Constraints
4. Foreign Learnings and Confucian Ways
5. European Origins on Trial
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index