Rooted in Hope: China – Religion – Christianity Vol 1

Barbara Hoster is Editor at the Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin, Germany.Dirk Kuhlmann is Editor at the Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin, Germany.Zbigniew Wesołowski SVD is Editor-in-Chief of the publications of the Monumenta Serica Institute and Professor of Sinology and Science of Religions at the Philosophical-Theological Faculty S.V.D. St. Augustin, Germany.

• Chinese Intellectual HistoryNicolas Standaert: Early Sino-European Contacts and the Birth of the Modern Concept of "Religion"; Paul Rule: The Dao of Ecology; Jiang Ryh-Shin: Laozi and the Formation of Philosophical Daoism. Its Formation as a School in Zhuangzi (in Chinese); Christian Schwermann: Economic Justice in Ancient China? A Few Thoughts on Distribution Policy (in German); Tiziana Lippiello: On the Difficult Practice of the Mean in Ordinary Life. Teachings from the Zhongyong; Wolfgang Kubin: A Life-long Anxiety and Not the Calamity of Merely One Morning. Towards Mengzi’s Understanding of Man’s Distress and the Problem of Intellectuals in History; Zbigniew Wesołowski s.v.d.: Experiences of Transcendence in China between the Past and the Present. "A Striking Continuity" (in German); Paul U. Unschuld: The Origins of Chinese Medicine. Secular Natural Science and the Quest for Existential Autonomy (in German)History of Christianity in ChinaMatteo Nicolini-Zani: Xu Guangqi, Disciple of the Luminous Teaching. A Study of the "Stone Inscription for the Church of the Luminous Teaching" (Jingjiaotang beiji) at Jiangzhou, around 1632; Monika Miazek-Męczyńska: The Roman Troubles of Michael Boym s.j. Described by Thomas Szpot Dunin in Historiae Sinarum Imperii and Collectanea Historiae Sinensis; Chiara Piccinini: Education to Filial Piety at the Time of the Kangxi Emperor. A French Translation of the Yuzhi Xiaojing yanyi xu in a Manuscript Preserved at Biblioteca Ambrosiana; Gianni Criveller p.i.m.e.: The Chinese Rites Controversy. A Narrative of an Ill-fated Misunderstanding; Claudia von Collani: The True Mother of the China Mission. Kilian Stumpf’s "Succincta Chronologica Relatio"; Rita Widmaier: The Significance of Dyadic in Leibniz’s Theory of Missions for China (in German); Eugenio Menegon: Yongzheng’s Conundrum. The Emperor on Christianity, Religions, and Heterodoxy; Feng-Chuan Pan: A Preliminary Survey of Elijah C. Bridgman’s "Heaou King"; Karl Josef Rivinius s.v.d.: The Modernization of China. Taking the Education System in the First Three Decades of the 20th Century as an Example (in German); Rolf Gerhard Tiedemann: The Papacy, Foreign Missionaries, and Chinese Catholics. Conflict and Accommodation between Maximum Illud and Ad Sinarum Gentem; Winfried Glüer: Between Despair and Hope. T.C. Chao – The Final Years (in German)