Foreigners and Outsiders: Chinese Views of Jesuit Missionaries in the Late Ming Period
This lecture proposes to analyse different views of the Jesuit missionaries in late Ming China, with special focus on their status as ‘foreigners’. The missionaries’ activities in various domains, i.e. religious, scientific, philosophic, among others, lent themselves to different appreciations of their presence in late Ming China. In turn, this presentation examines how the status of ‘foreigners’ in diverse seventeenth-century Chinese sources could lead to inclusive perspectives of the Jesuits and their contributions on local soil or, on the contrary, to exclusive views of the Europeans in China, within contexts of disagreement and/or hostility.

Ana Carolina Hosne is Assistant Researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET), Argentina.
Date: 7 March 2022, 13:00 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2022)
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Ana Carolina Hosne (National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET), Argentina)
Organising department: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Organisers: Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Dr Yi Lu (University of Oxford), Dr Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford), Dr Giulia Falato (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: information@chinese.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr Giulia Falato (University of Oxford)
Part of: China Studies Seminar series
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OpMqLb4vQdumtl96Sw3U6A
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Clare Orchard