Joachim Bouvet’s interpretation of Zhouyi and his mathematical model : research on Joachim Bouvet’s Chinese manuscripts of Yijing in the Apostolic Vatican Library collection

• Main Author: Mu, Xiaofeng
• Other Authors: Li Chenyang
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Language
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144167
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The westward spread of Zhouyi周易 (or Yijing易经) and the Missionaries’ Yijing-study coincided with the prelude of modern Catholic missions in China and became entangled with the ups and downs of their development over a period of 200 years. Jesuit missionary Fr. Joachim Bouvet白晋 (1656-1730) undoubtedly...