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David E. Mungello, Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology (University of Hawaii Press)

David E. Mungello

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David E. Mungello's academic history traces the Jesuit mission's accommodation method in China from Matteo Ricci through the 1687 publication of Confucius Sinarum Philosophus, treating the volume as the founding text of European sinology and tracing its influence on European Enlightenment readers, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

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The standard academic history of Jesuit sinology from a university press, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable university press scholarship, used here for the 1687 translation's significance and reception, corroborated by Thierry Meynard's specialist monograph on the same text.
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Used for Confucius Sinarum Philosophus's standing as the founding text of European sinology and its Enlightenment reception.
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David E. Mungello
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University of Hawaii Press
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Book (scholarly)
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This source names Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz directly: "Enlightenment readers, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz."

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