Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization

by LionelM.Jensen (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $46.05

  Traces the history of the Jesuits' invention of Confucius and of themselves as native defenders of Confucius' teaching. This book demonstrates how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Western missionaries used translations of the ancient ru tradition to invent the historical figure who has since been globally celebrated as philosopher, and prophet.