中國先秦秦漢典籍的研究平台：「末日前的語文學Philology in Our Time: The Early China Project Room」線上演講活動 講題：Friendship and Hospitality: The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2022) 時間：2022年7月8日（週五）晚上10:00 台北時間 發表人：徐東風（科爾蓋特大學） 評論人：蘇源熙 Haun Saussy（芝加哥大學） 主持人：夏含夷 Edward L. Shaughnessy（芝加哥大學） . 簡介： The Jesuit mission to China more than four hundred years ago has been the subject of sustained scholarly investigation for centuries. Focusing on the concepts of friendship and hospitality as they were both theorized and practiced by the Jesuit missionaries and their Confucian hosts, this book offers a new, comparative, and deconstructive reading of the interaction between these two vastly different cultures. Dongfeng Xu analyzes how the Jesuits presented their concept of friendship to achieve their evangelical goals and how the Confucians reacted in turn by either displaying or denying hospitality. Challenging the hierarchical view in traditional discourse on friendship and hospitality by revealing the irreducible otherness as the condition of possibility of the two concepts, Xu argues that one legacy of the Jesuit-Confucian encounter has been the shared recognition that cultural differences are what both motivated and conditioned cross-cultural exchanges and understandings.