David E. Mungello's academic history traces the Jesuit mission's accommodation method in China from Matteo Ricci through the 1687 publication of Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, treating the volume as the founding text of European sinology and tracing its influence on European Enlightenment readers, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
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Reliability Tier1
The standard academic history of Jesuit sinology from a university press, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable university press scholarship, used here for the 1687 translation's significance and reception, corroborated by Thierry Meynard's specialist monograph on the same text. NotesUsed for Confucius Sinarum Philosophus's standing as the founding text of European sinology and its Enlightenment reception.
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AuthorDavid E. Mungello
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
Source TypeBook (scholarly)
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This source names Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz directly: "Enlightenment readers, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz."
Source David E. Mungello, Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology (University of Hawaii Press)David E. Mungello
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