University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2015 Trans-Textual Dialogue in the Jesuit Missionary Intra-Lingual Translation of the Yijing Sophie Ling-chia Wei University of Pennsylvania,
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[email protected]. Trans-Textual Dialogue in the Jesuit Missionary Intra-Lingual Translation of the Yijing Abstract In Early Qing Dynasty, the Jesuit Figurists found the Yijing as their precious treasure and treated it as the bridge linking the gap between Christianity and Chinese civilization. The Yijing was viewed as preserving relics of this pure true religion. They tried to find Prisca theologia (ancient theology) in the Chinese classics, especially in the Yijing æ??ç¶? (the Book of Changes). This group of Jesuit Figurists viewed the Yijing as a prophetic book, which contained some of the mysteries of Christianity and so started their trans-textual dialogue with the ancient texts and the auxiliary commentaries of the Yijing. What distinguishes this dissertation from other academic research about the Jesuit Figurists is its focus on the Jesuit Figuristsâ?? Chinese works on the Yijing. Between 1710 and 1712, Bouvet wrote eight works about the Yijing in Chinese.