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China and the Chinese Rites Controversy in Dutch Newspapers 中国与荷兰报纸上的中国礼仪之争

Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700 Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI: 10.1163/9789004473294_007

B. Dooley, J. Raymond, Joop Koopman, M. V. Groesen, H. Helmers

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The Dutch Commodification of Confucius 孔子在荷兰的商品化

Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700 Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI: 10.1163/9789004473294_004

{"title":"The Dutch Commodification of Confucius","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004473294_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004473294_004","url":null,"abstract":"In the second half of the seventeenth century the Dutch Republic became the indisputable centre of European book production.1 The remarkable political structure of the Dutch Republic, as well as the absence of an absolute state religion were fundamental for this economic potential. Religious and economic immigrants combined with native skill to provide the necessary manpower, professional skills, and (equally important) creativity to give the industry its defining boost.2 The relatively stable economic situation presented printers and publishers with the opportunity to sell their books ‘wherever there was a demand for them’.3 Dutch cultural and economic growth was an important impetus for innovation on the book market, and a number of business-savvy publishers saw the commercial potential of books on China. In addition to the mercantile and missionary perspective in reproducing and reassembling information, these Dutch publishers displayed a new strategy towards Chinese religion and philosophy: that of ‘cultural entrepreneur’. This term has recently been identified especially in economics and the social sciences, yet it has also been employed in the study of culture in the Dutch Golden Age. A widely used definition is given by Thomas Aageson:","PeriodicalId":297716,"journal":{"name":"Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700","volume":"329 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122133070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Confucius in Dutch-Made Learned Journals 荷兰学术期刊中的孔子

Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700 Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI: 10.1163/9789004473294_006

{"title":"Confucius in Dutch-Made Learned Journals","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004473294_006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004473294_006","url":null,"abstract":"In August 1687, the Nouvelles de la République des lettres was the first learned journal in Europe to announce the publication of Confucius Sinarum philosophus (1687). The advertisement for the book informed the reader that Philippe Couplet’s translation ‘can be found in Amsterdam at Henry Desbordes’, who, not coincidentally, also happened to be the publisher of the Nouvelles.1 Many journals followed with announcements and reviews of the Confucius translation. A month later, the Histoire des ouvrages & de la vie scavans published the first full review and, in December, the Bibliothèque universelle et historique discussed the work in depth.2 Evidently, the subject interested other European countries as well; in October, the Philosophical transactions of London paid considerable attention to the book, followed by Le journal des sçavans of Paris in January 1688. Leipzig’s Acta eruditorum, Monatsgespräche from Halle, and Parma’s Giornale de’letterati soon joined the ranks.3 In the panoply of books discussed by early modern erudite periodicals, Confucius Sinarum philosophus held a special place.4 The work was by no means an early modern ‘best-seller’, as it was never reprinted nor fully translated into even (for the time) the most obvious European languages such as French, German, or Dutch. However, the appearance of numerous reviews soon after publication suggests that the work nevertheless had a considerable impact on the learned European world. In fact, although erudite periodicals reviewed hundreds of publications each year, the Jesuit translation of Confucius was the only book published in 1687 that was discussed by every major journal. In this single act, the learned journals demonstrate clearly how Europe became increasingly preoccupied with China during the last quarter of the seventeenth century. These broadly available publications brought the Middle Kingdom to the fore as an intellectual phenomenon, in part because","PeriodicalId":297716,"journal":{"name":"Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700","volume":"10 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123799059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Vernacular and Latin Translations of Confucius 孔子的白话和拉丁文译本

Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700 Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI: 10.1163/9789004473294_005

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China’s Religion and Philosophy in Dutch-Made Books, 1595–1687 荷兰书中的中国宗教与哲学(1595-1687

Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700 Pub Date : 2021-10-06 DOI: 10.1163/9789004473294_003

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