Table of Contents; Preface; Illustrations; The Cross-Cultural Perspective; I. The Policy of Accommodation; II. Matteo Ricci's 'Original Confucianism'; III. Hsu Kuang-ch'i's Conversion; IV. The First Anti-Christian Incident; V. Yang Kuang-hsien's Attack; VI. In Defense of 'Christianity-in-China'; VII. The K'ang-hsi Emperor and Christianity; Towards an East-West Dialogue; Notes; Bibliography; Glossary; Index
Summary
The book centres around a major theme: the first 'confrontation' between the Supreme Ultimate (or T'ien) of the Confucian cosmological order and the Christian anthropomorphic God as conveyed to the Chinese literati by the Western missionaries
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-166) and index
