Transforming the East: Jesuit Translations of the Confucian Classics

耶稣会士翻译的儒家经典不仅为欧洲提供了第一个了解中国哲学的窗口，而且改变了欧洲的思想和文化历史。本项目考察了这些翻译及其传播的丰富历史，并询问儒家思想如何影响启蒙哲学的发展。它将产生这些翻译的第一个全面的历史，并提供给英语学者在各种欧洲语言和中文的主要和次要来源。该项目将促进我们对个人和文本网络的理解，通过这些网络，欧洲和中国之间进行了第一次实质性的哲学交流。

The Jesuit translations of the Confucian canon not only provided the first European window into Chinese philosophy but also changed the intellectual and cultural history of Europe. This project examines the rich history of these translations and their dissemination, and interrogates how Confucian ideas influenced the development of Enlightenment philosophy. It will produce the first comprehensive history of these translations and make available to anglophone scholars primary and secondary sources in various European languages and Chinese. The project will advance our understanding of the personal and textual networks through which the first substantial philosophical exchange was conducted between Europe and China.