R Po-Chia Hsia
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Po-Chia Hsia |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Po-Chia |
| FAMILY NAME | Hsia |
| SIGNATURE | HSIA R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Marco Polo and His World
Portrait eines Jesuiten: Johann Adam Schall von Bell, edited by Claudia von Collani
the Journal of Jesuit Studies.Superb monographs by Henrietta Harrison (on Catholics in China) and Elizabeth Foster (on Catholics in Senegal), among many others
The Acta Pekinensia or Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation: Volume iii: January 1708–February 1709, edited by Paul Rule and Claudia von Collani
James G. Clark. The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History
Journal Article James G. Clark. The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History. Get access James G. Clark. The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. 720. Paper $24.00. R Po-chia Hsia R Po-chia Hsia Pennsylvania State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2, June 2024, …
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
Jesuit Mission and Submission: Qing Rulership and the Fate of Christianity in China, 1644-1735 by Litian Swen
Spanning the years from the Manchu invasion of China to the 1724 prohibition of Christianity by the Yongzhen emperor, this book explains the rise and decline of the missionary enterprise by focusing on the relationship between the Qing ruling class and European Jesuits. Rejecting Gernet’s cultural incompatibility model, Swen focuses on the Manchu institution of booi (household).1 Consisting of masters, servants, and slaves, the Manchu household f…
Jesuitenerbe in Peking: Sakralbauten und transkulturelle Räume, 1600–1800
Jesuitenerbe in Peking: Sakralbauten und transkulturelle Räume, 1600–1800. Wang Lianming. Heidelberg Transcultural Studies 5. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. 478 pp. + color pls. €68. - Volume 74 Issue 4
Kilian Stumpf sj , The Acta Pekinensia or historical records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation, II: September 1706–December 1707. Edited by Paul Rule and Claudia von Collani. (Studies in the History…
Kilian Stumpf sj, The Acta Pekinensia or historical records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation, II: September 1706–December 1707. Edited by Paul Rule and Claudia von Collani. (Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia, 1.) Pp. x + 811. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2019. €199. 978 90 04 39631 9; 2542 3681 - Volume 71 Issue 3
From Marco Polo to Matteo Ricci: Sino-Islamic Knowledge and the European Discovery of Cathay
A lison F orrestal . Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform
Christianity and Empire: The Catholic Mission in Late Imperial China
Reflecting on the theme of ‘Empire and Christianity’, this article compares two periods in the Catholic mission to China. The first period, between 1583 and 1800, was characterized by the accommodation of European missionaries to the laws, culture and customs of the Chinese empire during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The work of the Jesuits, in particular, demonstrated a method of evangelization in which Christian teachings could be accommodated t…
Freud's Moses
Moses and Monotheism , Freud’s last major book and the only one specifically devoted to a Jewish theme, has proved to be one of the most controversial and enigmatic works in the Freudian canon. Among other things, Freud claims in the book that Moses was an Egyptian, that he derived the notion of monotheism from Egyptian concepts, and that after he introduced monotheism to the Jews he was killed by them. Since these historical and ethnographic ass…
The Jesuit Reading of Confucius: The First Complete Translation of the Lunyu (1687) Published in the West
"The Jesuit Reading of Confucius: The First Complete Translation of the Lunyu (1687) Published in the West." Journal of Chinese Religions, 45(1), pp. 104–105
Selected Poems and Related Prose
F. T. Marinetti (1876-1944) is widely known as the founder of Futurism, an early twentieth-century cultural revolution that began as a literary movement and expanded to influence painters, musicians, dramatists, architects, and graphic artists throughout the world. This volume, a translation of more than forty poems and prose works by Marinetti, presents premier examples of his rich poetic creations, many for the first time in English. The collec…
The Acta Pekinensia or Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation. First Transcribed Edition and English Annotated Translation. Volume I: December 1705 – August 1706
Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650
The Eagle and the Dragon: Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century, by Serge Gruzinski
For Serge Gruzinski the key word to understanding the sixteenth century is ‘globalisation’. While rejecting the identification of globalisation with the expansion of Western Europe, he admits nonetheless that a globalised history was brought about by Iberian overseas expansion, bringing China and the Americas to the forefront of our own contemporary globalised world. In this book, he offers to narrate the familiar stories of Hernan Cortez and Tom…
The Cambridge World History: Volume 6, the Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800 CE, Part 2, Patterns of Change
The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of The Cambridge World History considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of e…
Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500–1700, by Tara Alberts
Journal Article Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500–1700, by Tara Alberts Get access Conflict and Conversion: Catholicism in Southeast Asia, 1500–1700, by Tara Alberts (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2013; pp. xviii + 242. £65). R. Po-Chia Hsia R. Po-Chia Hsia Penn State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 544, June 2015, Pages 733–735,…
Jesuit Foreign Missions. A Historiographical Essay
A review of recent scholarship on early modern Jesuit missions, this essay offers a reflection on the achievements and desiderata in current trends of research. The books discussed include studies on Jesuit missions in China (Matteo Ricci), on the finances of the eighteenth-century Madurai mission in India, the debates over indigenous missions in the Peruvian province in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, on print and book culture in th…
Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East, by Mary Laven
In the past year, no fewer than six books have been published in English, Italian, French, Chinese, and German on Matteo Ricci, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of this famous Jesuit missionary and pioneer in the cultural encounter between sixteenth-century China and the West (in the interests of full disclosure, one of these is authored by this reviewer). Laven’s work is the latest addition to this growing scholarship. Esch…
The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits
Historians are attracted by Jesuits. The Society of Jesus keeps excellent records, trains good historians, and performs many dramas on the stages of history. It is not surprising then that the series, ‘Cambridge Companions to Religion’, includes only this one volume devoted to a single religious order. The seventeen essays collected for this guide purport to offer a panorama of the history of the Company, from the life and work of its founding fa…
A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610
A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China. This critical biography tells the story of his remarkable life, one that bridged Counter‐Reformation Catholic Europe and China under the Ming dynasty. Using Chinese and western sources, Hsia follows the life of Ricci from his childhood in Macerata, through his education in Rome, to his sojourn in Portuguese India, before embarking on the long journey of …
The Myth of Ritual Murder. Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany
From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, German Jews were persecuted and tried for the alleged ritual murders of Christian children, whose blood purportedly played a crucial part in Jewish magical rites. In this engrossing book R. Po-Chia traces the rise and decline of ritual murder trials during that period. Using sources ranging from Christian and Kabbalistic treatises to judicial records and popular pamphlets, examines the reli…
Missionarsberufungen nach Ubersee in drei Deutschen Provinzen der Gesellschaft Jesu im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert
A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610
A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China. This critical biography tells the story of his remarkable life, one that bridged Counter‐Reformation Catholic Europe and China under the Ming dynasty. Using Chinese and western sources, Hsia follows the life of Ricci from his childhood in Macerata, through his education in Rome, to his sojourn in Portuguese India, before embarking on the long journey of …
Social discipline in the reformation: Central Europe, 1550-1750
Christianity and Empire: The Catholic Mission in Late Imperial China
Reflecting on the theme of ‘Empire and Christianity’, this article compares two periods in the Catholic mission to China. The first period, between 1583 and 1800, was characterized by the accommodation of European missionaries to the laws, culture and customs of the Chinese empire during the Ming and Qing dynasties. The work of the Jesuits, in particular, demonstrated a method of evangelization in which Christian teachings could be accommodated t…
Jesuit Foreign Missions. A Historiographical Essay
A review of recent scholarship on early modern Jesuit missions, this essay offers a reflection on the achievements and desiderata in current trends of research. The books discussed include studies on Jesuit missions in China (Matteo Ricci), on the finances of the eighteenth-century Madurai mission in India, the debates over indigenous missions in the Peruvian province in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, on print and book culture in th…
The Impact of the European Reformation: Princes, Clergy and People
Journal Article The Impact of the European Reformation: Princes, Clergy and People Get access The Impact of the European Reformation: Princes, Clergy and People, ed. Bridget Heal and Ole Peter Grell ( Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008; pp. 305. £60). R. Po-Chia Hsia R. Po-Chia Hsia Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 509, August 2009, Page…
Dreams and Conversions: A Comparative Analysis of Catholic and Buddhist Dreams in Ming and Qing China: Part I
Since the Church fathers, oneirology and dream revelations were regarded with considerable suspicion among theologians and ecclesiastical authorities, though dreams remained a powerful and pervasive feature of religious expression at a popular level. Among converts in Ming-Qing China, where lay initiatives were necessarily important given the paucity of European priests, holy dreams were crucial in the formation and consolidation of a powerful re…
Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization . Lionel M. Jensen
The Myth of the Commune: Recent Historiography on city and Reformation in Germany
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The Utopia in Chinese
Civic Wills as Sources for the Study of Piety in Muenster, 1530-1618
De Arte Cabalistica
Kirche und Gessellschaftlicher Wandel in Deutschen und Niederländischen Städten der Werdenden Neuzeit
Society and Religion in Munster, 1535-1618
The Protestant Reformation 1517-1559
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Society and Religion in Munster 1535-1618
Journal Article Society and Religion in Münster 1535–1618, by R. Po-chia Hsia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984, xiv + 306 pp. $25.00 Get access Guy E. Swanson Guy E. Swanson University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 3, Fall 1986, Pages 278–279, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711385 Published: 01 October 1986
Burgerliche Eliten in den Niederlanden und in Nordwestdeutschland. Studien zur Sozialgeschichte des europaischen Burgertums im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit
The Dutch Dissenters. A Critical Companion to Their History and Ideas
The Myth of the Commune: Recent Historiography on city and Reformation in Germany
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The Thirty Years' War. Geoffrey Parker
Hexenverfolgung in Bayern. Volksmagie, Glaubenseifer und Staatsrason in der Fruhen Neuzeit
Lay Theology in the Reformation: Popular Pamphleteers in Southwest Germany, 1521-1525 . Paul A. Russell
Caspar Schwenckfeld, Reluctant Rebel: His Life to 1540 . R. Emmet McLaughlin
Social discipline in the reformation: Central Europe, 1550-1750
Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany
The Reformation has traditionally been explained in terms of theology, the corruption of the church and the role of princes. R.W. Scribner, while not denying the importance of these, shifts the context of study of the German Reformation to an examination of popular beliefs and behaviour, and of the reactions of local authorities to the problems and opportunities for social as well as religious reform. This book brings together a coherent body of …
The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany
The German People and the Reformation.
The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany
Luther: Man between God and the Devil . Heiko A. Oberman , Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart
"Hsia, "The Myth of Ritual Murder
"Kirn, "Das Bild vom Juden in Deutschland
The Counter-Reformation in the Villages: Religion and Reform in the Bishopric of Speyer, 1560-1720.
The German Seventeenth Century Deutsche Geschichte, 1500-1600: Das Jahrhundert der Glaubensspaltung . Horst Rabe Kriege und Krisen: Deutschland, 1600-1715 . Volker Press Die Territorien des Reiches in…
In and out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany
During the 1920s much attention was paid to the history of Jews in Germany since the Enlightenment and the subject became popular again, with renewed emphasis, after 1945. Many historians were deeply committed to understanding and explaining the tragic path that led from the emancipation of the Jews to the Holocaust. For a long time, much less work was done on the history of Jews in Germany in earlier periods, particularly the period between the …
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