{"id":165510,"date":"2013-11-16T17:47:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T01:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=165510"},"modified":"2013-11-16T17:47:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T01:47:33","slug":"canonizing-matteo-ricci-political-maneuver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/11\/canonizing-matteo-ricci-political-maneuver\/","title":{"rendered":"Canonizing Matteo Ricci: A Political Maneuver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debra Bruno reports for The Atlantic that some are skeptical of\u00a0<strong><a title=\"Can Matteo Ricci\u2019s Beatification Mend China\u2019s Rift With the Catholic Church?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/china\/archive\/2013\/11\/can-matteo-ricci-s-beatification-mend-china-s-rift-with-the-catholic-church\/281405\/\">the campaign to turn a founding figure of the Jesuit China mission, Matteo Ricci, \u00a0into a saint:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whether that process is positive or not depends on your point of view, says Wang Meixiu, a scholar of world religions at Beijing\u2019s Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Catholics think the move is positive, but \u201cthose outside of the church\u2014they might think differently,\u201d she says. While the Chinese people have great respect for Ricci, \u201cat this sensitive period of time in history, to have him beatified is another thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brockey wonders who is behind the push for sainthood. \u201cI don\u2019t know whose interest it serves to have his beatification,\u201d he says. But anyone who reviewed the historic record would see that \u201cthe man was not a saint, no two ways about it,\u201d as Brockey says.<\/p>\n<p>R. Po-Chia Hsia, author of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0199656533\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0199656533&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=chidigtim0b-20\"><em>A Jesuit in the Forbidden City<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and a Professor of History at Penn State, agrees. \u201cIf he\u2019s canonized, I\u2019ll have to eat my words,\u201d he says. Historian Jonathan Spence\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0140080988\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0140080988&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=chidigtim0b-20\"><em>The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci<\/em><\/a>\u00a0describes scenes of Ricci shouting down Buddhist monks at dinner parties. And Ricci went to plenty of dinner parties, writes Spence. He called the Chinese \u201cbarbarians\u201d in letters home to friends and observed that slavery might be one of God\u2019s ways to eventually convert people to Christianity.[<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/china\/archive\/2013\/11\/can-matteo-ricci-s-beatification-mend-china-s-rift-with-the-catholic-church\/281405\/\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bruno concludes, however, that: &#8220;Despite these shortcomings, beatification might be a fitting end for a man who defied expectations in life and in death. When Ricci died in 1610, Emperor Wanli ordered an imperial burial in Beijing, an honor no foreigner before him had been granted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debra Bruno reports for The Atlantic that some are skeptical of\u00a0the campaign to turn a founding figure of the Jesuit China mission, Matteo Ricci, \u00a0into a saint: Whether that process is positive or not depends on your point of view, says Wang Meixiu, a scholar of world religions at Beijing\u2019s Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 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