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The Acta Pekinensia is a Latin manuscript found in the Jesuit Roman Archives. It is a record of the papal legation to China of Charles Thomas Maillard de Tournon, from his arrival in China to his death in Macau. It was compiled by Kilian Stumpf, a German Jesuit missionary/scientist serving at the court of the Kangxi emperor of China. Stumpf was in a privileged position to record day by day the events of this crucial episode not only in the history of Christianity in China but in Chinese-Western relations.
This annotated translation provides a full documentation and an acute and lively commentary on the clash of values which resulted in the failure of the legation and the condemnation of Chinese Rites. The present book is the fourth and last volume of the whole report written by Stumpf, and which covers all in all the time between the end of 1705 including May 1712.
This annotated translation provides a full documentation and an acute and lively commentary on the clash of values which resulted in the failure of the legation and the condemnation of Chinese Rites. The present book is the fourth and last volume of the whole report written by Stumpf, and which covers all in all the time between the end of 1705 including May 1712.
Price: $196.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia
Publication Date:
20 August 2026
ISBN: 9789004762923
Format: Hardcover
Paul Rule, after a doctoral thesis at the Australian National University on the Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism, was Senior Lecturer in History and Religious Studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He is a past President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion and has worked closely with the Macau Ricci Institute and the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College (formerly at the University of San Francisco) and published on the Jesuit missions in China, with a focus on the Chinese Rites Controversy.
Claudia von Collani, Dr. theol., is Professor at the Universität of Würzburg, she is missiologist and specialist in early modern East Asian mission history. She has written extensively on the Chinese Rites Controversy, Figurism, and the exchange of knowledge between China and Europe. Together with Paul Rule she already edited the former three volumes of the Acta Pekinensia.
Claudia von Collani, Dr. theol., is Professor at the Universität of Würzburg, she is missiologist and specialist in early modern East Asian mission history. She has written extensively on the Chinese Rites Controversy, Figurism, and the exchange of knowledge between China and Europe. Together with Paul Rule she already edited the former three volumes of the Acta Pekinensia.