Rooted in Hope: China – Religion – Christianity / In der Hoffnung verwurzelt: China – Religion – Christentum

Barbara Hoster is Editor at the Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin, Germany. Dirk Kuhlmann is Editor at the Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin, Germany. Zbigniew Wesołowski SVD is Editor-in-Chief of the publications of the Monumenta Serica Institute and Professor of Sinology and Science of Religions at the Philosophical-Theological Faculty S.V.D. St. Augustin, Germany.

Volume 1

Foreword; Tabula gratulatoria; Congratulatory Poem to Fr. Roman Malek; Bibliography of Roman Malek s.v.d.

Chinese Intellectual History

Nicolas Standaert: Early Sino-European Contacts and the Birth of the Modern Concept of "Religion"; Paul Rule: The Dao of Ecology; Jiang Ryh-Shin: Laozi and the Formation of Philosophical Daoism. Its Formation as a School in Zhuangzi (in Chinese); Christian Schwermann: Economic Justice in Ancient China? A Few Thoughts on Distribution Policy (in German); Tiziana Lippiello: On the Difficult Practice of the Mean in Ordinary Life. Teachings from the Zhongyong; Wolfgang Kubin: A Life-long Anxiety and Not the Calamity of Merely One Morning. Towards Mengzi’s Understanding of Man’s Distress and the Problem of Intellectuals in History; Zbigniew Wesołowski s.v.d.: Experiences of Transcendence in China between the Past and the Present. "A Striking Continuity" (in German); Paul U. Unschuld: The Origins of Chinese Medicine. Secular Natural Science and the Quest for Existential Autonomy (in German)

History of Christianity in China

Matteo Nicolini-Zani: Xu Guangqi, Disciple of the Luminous Teaching. A Study of the "Stone Inscription for the Church of the Luminous Teaching" (Jingjiaotang beiji) at Jiangzhou, around 1632; Monika Miazek-Męczyńska: The Roman Troubles of Michael Boym s.j. Described by Thomas Szpot Dunin in Historiae Sinarum Imperii and Collectanea Historiae Sinensis; Chiara Piccinini: Education to Filial Piety at the Time of the Kangxi Emperor. A French Translation of the Yuzhi Xiaojing yanyi xu in a Manuscript Preserved at Biblioteca Ambrosiana; Gianni Criveller p.i.m.e.: The Chinese Rites Controversy. A Narrative of an Ill-fated Misunderstanding; Claudia von Collani: The True Mother of the China Mission. Kilian Stumpf’s "Succincta Chronologica Relatio"; Rita Widmaier: The Significance of Dyadic in Leibniz’s Theory of Missions for China (in German); Eugenio Menegon: Yongzheng’s Conundrum. The Emperor on Christianity, Religions, and Heterodoxy; Feng-Chuan Pan: A Preliminary Survey of Elijah C. Bridgman’s "Heaou King"; Karl Josef Rivinius s.v.d.: The Modernization of China. Taking the Education System in the First Three Decades of the 20th Century as an Example (in German); Rolf Gerhard Tiedemann: The Papacy, Foreign Missionaries, and Chinese Catholics. Conflict and Accommodation between Maximum Illud and Ad Sinarum Gentem; Winfried Glüer: Between Despair and Hope. T.C. Chao – The Final Years (in German)

Volume 2

Christianity in Today’s China

Angelo S. Lazzarotto p.i.m.e.: Rediscovering Christian Life in China during Crucial Years (1978–1983). In Honour of Roman Malek; Jeroom Heyndrickx c.i.c.m.: Updating the China Mission. Guided by Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis; Eveline Warode: Fit for Religious Services? The Requirements for Religious Personnel in Today’s China. With a Special Focus on the Official Protestant Churches

Other Religions in China

Vincent Goossaert: The Textual Canonization of Guandi; Françoise Aubin: Islam and Confucianism. An Offering to Fr. Malek; Katharina Wenzel-Teuber: The Influence of Urbanization on Muslim Communities in China as Reflected in Chinese Academic Journals (in German); Roderich Ptak: Qianliyan und Shunfeng’er in xiaoshuo and Other Texts of the Yuan and Ming Period (in German); Pier Francesco Fumagalli: Jews and Jewish Studies in China. Notes for a Bibliography

Chinese Language and Literature

Irene Eber: Translating King David; Monika Motsch: Shandong Drum Songs of the Bible; Marián Gálik: "Omnia Consummata sunt." Xiang Peiliang’s Version of the Biblical Story of Jesus between Bethany and Gethsemane; Barbara Hoster: "A Fortunate Encounter." Su Xuelin as a Chinese Catholic Writer; Thomas Zimmer: "Only then Did He Realize that It Is Not an Easy Thing to Believe in God." Religion in Contemporary Chinese Literature (in German); Leopold Leeb s.v.d.: The Competitiveness of Modern Han-Chinese

Encounter of Cultures

Ursula Toyka: Buddhist Painting in Ming-dynasty Beijing. Encounters of Peoples and Cultures as Reflected in Art (in German); Noël Golvers: Communication and Exchange of Knowledge between West and East (17th and 18th c.). The Routes, Illustrated by the Case of the "Via Ostendana"; Zhang Xiping and Ren Dayuan: Cultural Significance of the "Chinese Books on Western Learning" in Late Ming and Early Qing (in Chinese); Hartmut Walravens: The Kowalewski Collection. The First European Catalogue of Mongolian, Tibetan, Manchu, and Chinese Books (1834) (in German); Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer: Remapping an Ancient Culture. Monumenta Serica and the Academic Research on China and Her Neighbours (in German); Piotr Adamek s.v.d.: African Muslims and Christians and Their "Chinese Dream"; Franz Günther Gessinger s.v.d.: The Mission of Multi-faceted Christianity in a Globalized World