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1、FrenchHistory,vol.27,no.1(2013)doi:10.1093/fh/crs122CHineSenOviCeS,JeSUiTmiSSiOnArieSAndTHeACCidenTAlCOnSTrUCTiOnOFSinOPHObiAinenligHTenmenT FrAnCeJeFFreyd. bUrSOn*DownloadedfromAbstract—ThisarticlecontextualizesFrenchperceptionsofChinesecultureduringtheenlightenmentbyexaminingno
2、tjustsignificanteighteenth-centurygensdeslettres,butthehttp://fh.oxfordjournals.org/unintendedconsequencesofwidelyappropriatedJesuittextsandworksonChinabyastilllargelyunstudiedcadreofChinesetravellersandintellectuals:theChinese-bornJesuitnoviceswhotravelledbetweeneuropeandChina,a
3、ndoftenbrieflyresidedasexpatriatescholarsineuropeduringtheeighteenthcentury.ContrarytomuchexistingworkontheJesuitsinChinathatfocusesonwaysinwhichtheearlyandmiddleeighteenth-centuryenlightenmentwasatimeofSinophilia,thisarticlenotesthatsomeJesuits,andatinybutsignificantcadreofJesui
4、t-educatedChineseliteratiwholivedortravelledextensivelyineurope,werealsocontributorstoaFrenchreadingpublicthatbecamerelativelymorecriticalofChina,thustransformingthelateenlightenmentintheprocess.atUniversityofEdinburghonOctober13,2013iAsdonaldlachandedwinvanKleyhaveargued,anunusu
5、allywidespread,andtosomeextentchimerical,familiaritywithChinaexistedwithineight-eenth-centuryenlightenmentthought.1Ultimately,suchfamiliaritywasduetotheculturalmediationoftheJesuitswhopioneeredthepervasiveeighteenth-centuryeuropeantendencytocreatetheirownidentitiesusingChinaasaso
6、undingboard.This‘unconsciousculturalanalogizing’,thatChinahistorianFrederickW. moteonceconsideredcharacteristicofSino-europeanculturalexchange,wouldnothavebeenpossibleifnotfortheJesuitobsessionwithChinesephilosophyandscience,cultivatedandexportedtotheWestbymis-sionarieswhocombedt
7、hroughChineselanguageandworldviewforthatone‘altartoanunknowngod’,whichcouldbeusedtospreadChristianity.2nevertheless,asbasilguy,davidmungelloand,morerecently,davidPorter*TheauthorisAssistantProfessorofmodernFrenchHistoryatgeorgiaSouthernUniversity.Hemaybecontactedatjburson@georgia
8、southern.edu.1d.F. lachande. J.vanKley,A