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On Friendship: One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince
Matteo Ricci
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Hardback. Translator(s): Billings, Timothy James. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 280. One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince. 192 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HPDF. Dimension: 178 x 146 x 20. Weight: 284. Translator(s): Billings, Timothy James.
"On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."--Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601 Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship--the first book to be written in Chinese by a European--that instantly became a late Ming best seller. On Friendship distilled the best ideas on friendship from Renaissance Latin texts into one hundred pure and provocative Chinese maxims. Written in a masterful classical style, Ricci's sayings established his reputation as a great sage and ... Read more
"On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."--Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601 Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship--the first book to be written in Chinese by a European--that instantly became a late Ming best seller. On Friendship distilled the best ideas on friendship from Renaissance Latin texts into one hundred pure and provocative Chinese maxims. Written in a masterful classical style, Ricci's sayings established his reputation as a great sage and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231149242
SKU
V9780231149242
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About Matteo Ricci
Timothy Billings holds advanced degrees in sinology from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and in English literature from Cornell University. For more than ten years he has been a professor at Middlebury College, where he teaches Shakespeare and world literature. His critical edition of Victor Segalen's French and Chinese prose poems, Steles, was ... Read more
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