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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

On The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven and its ideological influences

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15520040
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Chinese philosophy
Research InstitutionKYUSHU UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

SHIBATA Atsushi  Kyushu University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 大学院・人文科学研究院, 教授 (00117128)

Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2005
KeywordsCod / Catholicism / Matteo Ricci / The Society of Jesus / Soul / Confucianism
Research Abstract

1.Investigating and examining various xylographs of The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven, I demonstrated the background of this literature, dissimilarities of some xylographs, and some alterations of the letter in the texts.
2.Examining the setting of colloquies between Western and Chinese people in The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven, I revealed the quotation source and the background ideology.
3.Concerning the author of The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven, Matteo Ricci, I studied his view about the contemporary Chinese ideology.
4.In conformity with texts, I domonstrated the aim and the purpose that the author Matteo Ricci wrote The True Meaning of the Load of Heavens.
5.Concerning two important keywords of The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven : the God and Soul, I analyzed the usage of these two key concepts in the original Chinese texts and, this analysis leads us to the modification of former misinterpretations of this literature.
6.I completed and published the full translation of The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven for the first time in Japan.
7.Translating The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven correctly, I made the intellectual-historical significance of this literature more clear.
8.I made an index of proper nouns (person's names, book titles, place names) in this literature.
9.I demonstrated how the people in late Ming and Qing dynasty read The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven.
10.I demonstrated the influence of The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven on the Korean dynasty.
11.I demonstrated the influence of The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven on Japan in the Edo period.
12.Examining Ji-ren Shi-pian (Paradoxes) in close connection with The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven, I crystallized the direction of the future research of this field.

  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2006 2004

All Journal Article (4 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 『畸人十篇』研究序説2006

    • Author(s)
      柴田 篤
    • Journal Title

      哲学年報 65

      Pages: 35-60

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] A Preliminary Study of Ji-ren Shi-pian (Paradoxes)2006

    • Author(s)
      SHIBATA, Atsushi
    • Journal Title

      Tetsugaku Nempo (Annual of Philosophy) 65

      Pages: 35-60

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 『天主実義』の出版2004

    • Author(s)
      柴田 篤
    • Journal Title

      哲学年報 63

      Pages: 107-132

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Study of the publication of Tian-zhu Shi-yi (The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven)2004

    • Author(s)
      SHIBATA, Atsushi
    • Journal Title

      Tetsugaku Nempo (Annual of Philosophy) 63

      Pages: 107-132

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] 天主実義2004

    • Author(s)
      柴田 篤
    • Total Pages
      348
    • Publisher
      平凡社
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Tian-zhu Shi-yi (The True Meaning of the Load of Heaven)2004

    • Author(s)
      SHIBATA, Atsushi (translated and annotated)
    • Total Pages
      348
    • Publisher
      Heibonsha
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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