Zhejiang University Press published the book Zhu Shi Collection (With an Appendix of the Zhu Dadian Collection) (2024) about Catholicism in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Feng Wenchang, Zhu Shi, and Wu Li were all Catholics and remnants of the early Qing dynasty, according to Chinese Christian Studies. Having close contacts with missionaries and Catholics, Zhu Dadian was recommended by Xu Guangqi (a Catholic Chinese scholar-official) to assist in calendar reform along with Jin Sheng, later martyred.
Zhu Shi (1602–1686), a famous scholar during the Ming and Qing dynasties, traveled between prominent officials and literati as a wandering scholar. He was highly respected for his talents, writings, medical skills, and Western learning. He also devoted himself to the localization of Western learning, showing a tendency to integrate Confucianism and Christianity, with Christianity supplementing Confucianism. He hand-copied the Treatise on the Soul and had close exchanges with well-known Jesuits such as Lodovico Buglio, Ferdinand Verbiest, and Martino Martini. Martino Martini dictated and Zhu Shi refined the well-known Treatise on Friendship. The two extant works of Zhu Shi, Record of Knowing How to Learn Properly and On Hopeful Swallows (these two are not sure), which are both manuscript copies, have not attracted attention from the academic community until now.
This book is the first attempt to organize his work.
The works of Zhu Dadian, a famous anti-Qing general, have been lost. Since Zhu Shi was a student of Zhu Dadian, this book also includes Zhu Dadian's works collated from the genealogy of the Zhu Family in Tanxi, as well as documentary materials collected from varied sources. It is of value for understanding the military, political, and social conditions in the Shandong and Jiangnan regions during the late Ming dynasty.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
关于明清之际一天主教徒的著作《祝石集（附朱大典集）》（2024）由浙江大学出版社出版。
据汉语基督教研究网，冯文昌、祝石、吴历均为清初天主教徒、遗民；朱大典与传教士、天主教徒往来密切，曾与金声等一起被徐光启推荐主持修历，后殉国而死。
祝石（1602—1686后），明清之际著名文士，以游士身份往来于显宦名家之间；才识、文章、医术、西学深得时人尊崇。他还致力于西学本土化的探索，表现出合汇儒耶、以耶补儒的倾向。曾手录《灵魂论》，与利类思、南怀仁、卫匡国等知名耶稣会士交往契密。著名的《逑友篇》即是由卫匡国口述，祝石笔录修润而成。祝石现存的两种著作《知好好学录》与《希燕说》均为稿抄本，至今仍深藏秘阁，未引起学界注意，本书系首次对其著作进行整理。
抗清名将朱大典著作已亡佚，由于祝石曾从游朱大典之门，因此本书又附录从《潭溪朱氏宗谱》中辑出的朱大典著作，及从各类文献中收集的关于朱大典的文献资料，对了解晚明山东、江南一带的军事、政治、社会有重要价值。
《祝石集（附朱大典集）》（2024）
Zhejiang University Press published the book Zhu Shi Collection (With an Appendix of the Zhu Dadian Collection) (2024) about Catholicism in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Feng Wenchang, Zhu Shi, and Wu Li were all Catholics and remnants of the early Qing dynasty, according to Chinese Christian Studies. Having close contacts with missionaries and Catholics, Zhu Dadian was recommended by Xu Guangqi (a Catholic Chinese scholar-official) to assist in calendar reform along with Jin Sheng, later martyred.
Zhu Shi (1602–1686), a famous scholar during the Ming and Qing dynasties, traveled between prominent officials and literati as a wandering scholar. He was highly respected for his talents, writings, medical skills, and Western learning. He also devoted himself to the localization of Western learning, showing a tendency to integrate Confucianism and Christianity, with Christianity supplementing Confucianism. He hand-copied the Treatise on the Soul and had close exchanges with well-known Jesuits such as Lodovico Buglio, Ferdinand Verbiest, and Martino Martini. Martino Martini dictated and Zhu Shi refined the well-known Treatise on Friendship. The two extant works of Zhu Shi, Record of Knowing How to Learn Properly and On Hopeful Swallows (these two are not sure), which are both manuscript copies, have not attracted attention from the academic community until now.
This book is the first attempt to organize his work.
The works of Zhu Dadian, a famous anti-Qing general, have been lost. Since Zhu Shi was a student of Zhu Dadian, this book also includes Zhu Dadian's works collated from the genealogy of the Zhu Family in Tanxi, as well as documentary materials collected from varied sources. It is of value for understanding the military, political, and social conditions in the Shandong and Jiangnan regions during the late Ming dynasty.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
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