Jiulio Aleni And Kouduo Richao

From the perspective of Communication Studies, with Kouduo richao as its main object, this dissertation tries to discuss the dialogue between Jiulio Aleni and the local people in Fujiang during 1630-1640, so as to make a survey of the communication and integration of Chinese and Western culture in a specific region and period of time when Catholism was spread eastward.The main point is as follows:After Matteo Ricci, Society of Jesus paid more attention to non-governmental missionary work, which makes the subject, object, media and context of the spreading of Catholism in late Ming dynasty quite different from that in earlier period, epitomized by a noticeable phenomenon that Confucian scholars from the middle and lower class, instead of the scholar-officials from the upper class, had become the object of missionary work. In addition, being the local opinion leaders, the Confucian scholars from the middle and lower class mediated between the missionaries and the poor Catholics, with their understanding of the Catholic doctrines directly influencing the existence and development of the local Catholism. Fujian diocese which was directed by Jiulio Aleni was a typical case in this period of time. On the one hand, the major concern of this paper is the speech and action of Jiulio Aleni and his fellow missionaries, discussing how they viewed and treated the practical problems brought by cultural difference in their missionary actions and how they made Catholism localized; on the other hand, this paper also stresses on the religious activities and the spiritual training of Confucian scholars from the middle and lower class, and their understanding of the difference between the Chinese culture and western culture and how they reconciled and integrated the conflicts.Apart from the traditional text analysis, the research methods of this article include mainly the methods of Communication Studies, which, starting with giver, recipient, information, media and result, combined with the methods of sociology and anthropology, seeing missionaries-the Confucian religious followers from the middle and lower classes in Fujian as the research subject, giving an overall and systematic survey of the cultural communication from the perspectives of both the givers and recipient. This article also tries an interdisciplinary theoretic investigation, which includes a discussion of religious artistic works by the missionaries from the angle of Art History, a discussion of the miracle stories of missionaries and the Chinese scholar followers from the angle of Comparative Literature, a discussion about the localization of Western ethics in China from the angle of Ethics, and the discussion about the impact of Chinese local religions on Catholic community, etc.There are four parts in this dissertation:Part 1, the text analysis of Kouduo richao; Part 2, a discussion about the recipient, that is, a survey on the activities and speeches of the scholar followers from the middle and lower classes in Fujian; Part 3, the studies of methods of communication; Part 4, the verification of identity of Jiulio Aleni in Fujian and his missionary works during Longwu period in Nan Ming dynasty.