Download or read book The Jesuit Reading of Confucius written by Thierry Meynard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thierry Meynard examines how the Jesuits in China came to understand the Confucian tradition, and how they offered the first complete translation of the Lunyu in the West, in the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (Confucius, the Philosopher of China, 1687).