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  • Parallel Lives, Congenial Visions

    Christian Precursors of Modernity in China and Japan

    by Leopold Leeb ...
    Series series Collectanea Serica. New Series
    This book introduces the history of cultural exchanges between East Asia and the West through comparative biographical sketches of sixty personalities from China and Japan. These sketches illustrate how both countries, starting from a shared cultural heritage in script and Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist worldviews, took rather different approaches in their encounters with the European world since ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Status and Stigma

    A Comparative History of Christians in China and in Korea

    by Declan Marmion, Gesa Thiessen, Norbert Hintersteiner, Judith Gruber, Leopold Leeb ...
    Series Book 20 - Studies in Theology, Society and Culture
    This comparative study of the history of Christianity in China and in Korea opens up new perspectives for the understanding of the presence of the Christian faith in East Asia. Following the historical sequence throughout the last four centuries the author narrates the biographies of several outstanding Christians from China and Korea and attempts to understand them in their respective cultural ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Missionaries to China

    A Historical Dictionary

    by Leopold Leeb ...
    Series series Studies in Christianity in East Asia
    A comprehensive sourcebook for historians and sinologists, containing biographies of over 1000 Christian missionaries who served in China before 1955.In this monumental reference work, Leopold Leeb provides biographical accounts of over 1000 missionaries in China, beginning in the year 635 and continuing through the mid-twentieth century. Missionaries to China: A Historical Dictionary is ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • One Dragon, Two Doves

    A Comparative History of the Catholic Church in China and in Vietnam

    by Leopold Leeb, Declan Marmion, Gesa Thiessen, Norbert Hintersteiner, Judith Gruber ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in Theology, Society and Culture
    This comparative study of the history of the Catholic Church in China and Vietnam from the seventeenth to the twentieth century opens up new perspectives for the understanding of the presence of Christianity in Asia. The author narrates the biographies of a number of outstanding missionaries and Christians from China and Vietnam and tries to understand them in their respective historical ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

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  • The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800

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  • The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese History

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