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The influence of Zhu Xi on Alfonso Vagnone's treatise Tongyou Jiaoyu 童幼教育 (On the Education of Children, c. 1632)
No full textAlfonso Vagnone S.J.’s (1568 – 1640) contribution to the diffusion of Western moral philosophy into late Ming China is often neglected, but it is undeniable. His pedagogic treatise, Tongyou Jiaoyu 童幼教育 (On the education of children, c.1632), the oldest proof of a Sino-Western exchange in the field of pedagogy, introduced various aspects of the European Classical and Renaissance education, integrating these with Confucian (and neo-Confucian) precepts on moral cultivation.
An epistemological similarity between Vagnone’s teachings and the eminent Neo-Confucian philosopher and pedagogue Zhu Xi 朱熹’s precepts was first identified by Han Lin韩霖, the author of the foreword to the treatise. The potential influence of Zhu Xi’s approach to the education on Vagnone’s pedagogic treatise is the purpose of the present paper, which will be based on a preliminary intertextual analysis between Tongyou Jiaoyu and the Neo-Confucian primer Xiaoxue 小学 by Zhu Xi. This study also intends to shed new light on the Chinese sources of Tongyou Jiaoyu, a topic which is also crucial to understanding the Jesuit’s adaptation of terms and concepts of foreign origin
Parents, children, mutual duties and relations: a European way of governing the family in a late Ming socio-cultural context
No full textThis paper proposes to examine the representations of parents and children, along with
their duties and relations, as portrayed in Alfonso Vagnone S.J.’s (1568-1640) treatises Tongyou jiaoyu
童幼教育 (On the Education of Children, c. 1632) and Qijia Xixue 齊家西學 (On Governing the Family in
the West, c. 1635). In particular, this study will highlight the most relevant moral exhortations that
Vagnone addressed to parents and children and will discuss them in the broader context of the late
Ming society and literary trends. Such an investigation aims at defining the family model that was
presented to the late Ming literati and at comparing it with the depictions in the Song-Ming booklets
o f family instructions (jiaxun 家訓)
Alfonso Vagnone's Tongyou Jiaoyu 童幼教育 (On the Education of Children, c. 1632). The earliest encounter between Chinese and European pedagogy
No full textThis manuscript aims to provide a complete study of Alfonso Vagnone S.J.’s (1568 – 1640)
treatise, Tongyou Jiaoyu 童幼教育(On the Education of Children, c.1632), alongside its first
annotated translation in the English language. It draws upon my revised doctoral thesis, which investigated the role played by Tongyou Jiaoyu, the earliest proof of a Sino-Western exchange in the
field of pedagogy, in introducing European Classical and Renaissance moral philosophy into late Ming China. In particular, it is the purpose of this project to investigate how Vagnone’s text related
to the European and Chinese pedagogical traditions by providing an analysis of the historical and
cultural background, along with examining the most relevant works on the education of children
that most influenced the Jesuit’s writing. This work will also take a deep dive into Vagnone’s
rhetorical style and translation strategies in order to identify which elements of Western moral
philosophy were selected and how these were adapted to fit the Chinese cultural milieu
Spazi, ruoli e precetti dell'istruzione giovanile nella Cina del primo periodo imperiale
No full textDuring the Western Han (206 BC–9 AD) theories on children’s education were codified and gender-specific roles were defined. These were essential for the creation of an ideal Confucian society and the social expectations towards the younger generations. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine spaces, agents and practices of children education, alongside the doctrinal innovations introduced by prominent Han thinkers, in order to understand their role in preserving social harmony
Alfonso Vagnone S.J.'s “Tongyou Jiaoyu 童幼教育 (Child Education)” and its contribution to the introduction of Western learning into late Ming China
No full textThe introduction of Western learning (Xixue 西学) had a consistent cultural impact on late Ming and early Qing
society in China. It helped to promote modernity by opening the door to a number of scientific innovations and by
creating a new ‘global awareness’ in the way Chinese people saw themselves and their country. This slow and yet
revolutionary process was carried out using books written in Chinese by Jesuit missionaries. These tomes aimed to
promote core notions and values of Western origin, which were culturally adapted in order to be understood and
accepted by Chinese readers.
Although Giulio Aleni S.J.’s (1582 – 1649) “Xixue Fan 西学凡 (Summary of Western Learning, 1623)” is
considered groundbreaking among the humanistic works that helped introducing Western learning and systematic
education into 17th century China, in the past few years, Alfonso Vagnone S.J.’s (1566 – 1640) pedagogic treatise
“Tongyou Jiaoyu 童幼教育 (Education of Children, published in 1632)”, has also gained increasing attention from
scholars. The book deals with various aspects of child education from two perspectives (teaching and learning),
resulting in a unique combination of philosophical and pedagogic concepts from both Chinese and Western (mostly
Renaissance) traditions.
In particular one of its chapters, “Xixue 西学” was composed 17 years before the rest of the book and about 8 years
before Aleni’s “Xixue Fan 西学凡”. This chapter therefore contains some guidelines and lexical innovations which
were further developed by Aleni in his book, published in 1623.
On the basis of these assumptions, this article’s goal is to shed a new light on the role Vagnone’s “Tongyou Jiaoyu
童 幼教育”played in the promotion of Western learning in late Ming China. The article will at first provide an overview on how the concepts of the West (Xifang 西方) and Western learning (Xixue 西学) evolved between the
Tang Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. Later, it will discuss the crucial stages of the introduction of the Western
learning and the contribution of Vagnone’s “Xixue 西学 and Aleni’s “Xixue Fan 西学凡” to both these periods.
Finally, a lexical and structural examination of the chapter “Xixue 西学” will be carried out, to find out if, and to
what extent, it influenced Aleni’s “Xixue Fan 西学凡
Alfonso Vagnone S.J.'s Tongyou Jiaoyu 童幼教育 (On the education of children, c. 1632): the earliest introduction of Renaissance pedagogy into late Ming China
No full textAlla morte di Matteo Ricci nel 1610, tra i Gesuiti che ne raccolsero l’eredità portando avanti il suo progetto di introduzione del sapere occidentale nella Cina di fine dinastia Ming, il contributo degli italiani Giulio Aleni (1582 – 1649) e Alfonso Vagnone (1568 – 1640) fu particolarmente rilevante. Tra i loro meriti letterari figura ad esempio la prima descrizione del sistema accademico dell’Italia rinascimentale, influenzato dalla riforma “Ratio Studiorum” del 1599.
Sebbene il “Xixue Fan 西学凡 (Generalità delle scienze occidentali, 1623)” di Aleni sia stato a lungo considerato la prima opera ad aver introdotto l’organizzazione e le fasi dell’istruzione rinascimentale in Cina, recenti studi hanno individuato la sua fonte nel breve saggio “Xixue 西学 (Scienze occidentali ca. 1615)” di Vagnone. Lo scritto, rimasto inedito fino al 1632, quando fu incluso nel trattato pedagogico di Vagnone “Tongyou Jiaoyu 童幼教育 (Educazione dei giovani)” presenta tematiche e innovazioni lessicali successivamente riprese da Aleni nella sua pubblicazione del 1623.
Il presente intervento mira a dimostrare, attraverso un’analisi filologica comparativa delle due opere, il loro contributo all’introduzione dell’istruzione rinascimentale italiana, nonché la loro appartenenza a due diverse fasi della promozione del sapere occidentale nella Cina di fine dinastia Ming
Growing up in the inner chambers in late Tang times: moral duties and social expectations
No full textThis study proposes to explore the moral precepts, daily duties, and ritual practices addressed to young girls in the late Tang 唐 period (eighth to tenth century). It relies on works written for women by women, which on the one hand reproduced some of the female tasks and virtues codified during the Han 漢 dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), but on the other introduced a number of time-specific innovations. These ranged from changes in religious beliefs, particularly due to the predominant role of Buddhism and Daoism in post-Han society, to the alteration of women’s domain of personal relationships, especially regarding their husbands, family members, and guests. By intercepting and highlighting such elements of discontinuity within preexisting tradition, this paper will analyse how young girls’ domain of agency within the family (the inner chambers) and the broader society changed over time. Moreover, through the examination of moral and ritual elements of female education, this work will provide fresh insights into how the roles of daughters, wives, and mothers were understood in the late Tang period, with a particular emphasis on their complementarity, rather than subordination, to male figures. The selected texts examined below, all belonging to the nüxun 女訓 (female instruction) genre of the late Tang period, will be treated as invaluable sources of the cultural history of women and family units between the eighth and tenth centuries
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No full textLanguage learning and negotiation: the experience of Jesuit translators in late imperial China
No full textPaving the way to a moral reform of the Jiangzhou community compact: the literary legacy of Alfonso Vagnone S.J.'s Tongyou Jiaoyu
No full textThis paper investigates the impact of Alfonso Vagnone S.J.’s (1568-1640) pedagogical treatise, Tongyou Jiaoyu (On the Education of Children, c.1632) on the moral education of the Jiangzhou community compact.
The introduction will provide an overview on the literary work Vagnone undertook at the Jiangzhou residence, focusing in particular on his educational project aimed at the moral reform of the local community. In the main section of the paper, I will discuss the ‘direct fortune’ of Tongyou Jiaoyu, i.e. the immediate reception the book had in the local area over the years following its publication. The final part of this paper will introduce some considerations about the ‘indirect fortune’ of Tongyou Jiaoyu, which is instead connected to the circulation of terms and concepts it introduced, in the form of quotations in other coeval publications
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