Translating the Saint: Joseph de Prémare's Figurist Torque of Chinese from Decem to Crucem

PAN Feng-chuan

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PAN Feng-chuan. Translating the Saint: Joseph de Prémare's Figurist Torque of Chinese from Decem to Crucem[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2018, 1(1): 76-96.

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PAN Feng-chuan. Translating the Saint: Joseph de Prémare's Figurist Torque of Chinese from Decem to Crucem[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2018, 1(1): 76-96.

PAN Feng-chuan. Translating the Saint: Joseph de Prémare's Figurist Torque of Chinese from Decem to Crucem[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2018, 1(1): 76-96.

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PAN Feng-chuan. Translating the Saint: Joseph de Prémare's Figurist Torque of Chinese from Decem to Crucem[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2018, 1(1): 76-96.

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Translating the Saint: Joseph de Prémare's Figurist Torque of Chinese from Decem to Crucem

PAN Feng-chuan

Taiwan Normal University

Received Date: 2016-04-06
Rev Recd Date: 2017-09-09

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This paper discusses the reception and transformation of the image of Shengren (圣人, the Saint)-arguably one of the key concepts in the Chinese classics-in the works of figurist Jesuit Joseph Henry-Marie de Prémare (1666-1736). Focusing on the interwoven images of the ideal figures in the Chinese and Catholic traditions, the author discovers in Prémare's arguments one unique interpretation of Shengren, viz., reinterpreting the Chinese character shi (十, decem, ten) as shizijia (十字架, crucem, the Cross) of the Christian tradition by integrating Pythagore's Tetractys of the Decad and the Chinese hetu (河图, River Map, Chinese mathematical square). He claims that the Chinese Shengren indicates the most pious son of the Cross and is to be understood allegorically as Jesus Christ.
- Jesuits in China,
- Joseph de Prémare,
- the Saint,
- the Cross,
- Figurist ten,
- the Incarnation

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