TY - BOOK AU - Canaris,Daniel TI - Michele Ruggieri’s Tianzhu shilu (The True Record of the Lord of Heaven, 1584) T2 - Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia SN - 9789004470149 AV - DS501 U1 - 950.05 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Leiden; , Boston PB - BRILL KW - Asian Studies KW - Intellectual History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The True Record of the Lord of Heaven ( Tianzhu shilu , 1584) by the Jesuit missionary Michele Ruggieri was the first Chinese-language work ever published by a European. Despite being published only a few years after Ruggieri started learning Chinese, it evinced sophisticated strategies to accommodate Christianity to the Chinese context and was a pioneering work in Sino-Western exchange. This book features a critical edition of the Chinese and Latin texts, which are both translated into English for the first time. An introduction, biography, and rich annotations are provided to situate this text in its cultural and intellectual context UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004470149 ER -