[KS] re Matteo Ricci's You Lun (Essay on Friends)

[Don Baker]

Ricci's treatise on friendship definitely made it to Korea. In fact, it was being read in Korea a little more than a decade after it appeared in China. Yi Sugwang mentions Ricci's treatise on friendship in his Jibong Yusŏl, which first appeared in 1614.  It was mentioned several more times over the next couple of centuries by various Confucian scholars.  However, how it reached Korea is not clear. It was probably brought there by someone who had gone on a diplomatic mission to China, but we don't know who that person (or persons--there were probably several copies in Korea by the middle of the 18th century) was. 

Don Baker ProfessorDepartment of Asian Studies University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z2 don.baker at ubc.ca

From: pjc at haneng.demon.co.uk
To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:45:35 +0100
Subject: [KS] re Matteo Ricci's You Lun (Essay on Friends)



Dear Korean Studies List It seems that Matteo Ricci began writings his 100 maxims on friendship in 1595 before his work on ‘The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven’. Does anyone know if Ricci’s work on friendship was one of the books imported into Korea in subsequent centuries? If so, by whom and when? Regards Peter CorbishleyLeeds Trinity 		 	   		  
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