Friendship and Hospitality

Friendship and HospitalityOffers a comparative and deconstructive reading of the cross cultural encounter between the Jesuits and their Confucian hosts in late Ming China. The Jesuit mission to China more than four hundred years ago has been the subject of sustained scholarly investigation for centuries. Focusing on the concepts of friendship and hospitality as they were both theorized and practiced by the Jesuit missionaries and their Confucian hosts, this book offers a new,

est une première contribution de la Fondation pour les études progressistes européennes à la Conférence sur l’avenir de l’Europe et au-delà

Working in early twentieth-century Paris

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examining whether some forms of semi-presidentialism are more conducive to democratisation than others and examines its impact on government performance in terms of stability and policy-making

Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age

'presentation' and 'reception' are fused together to make up the overall 'performance'

" as well as various relevant essays and documents

It considers the advantages of using progenitor species of Malus × domestica in traditional breeding programs

and the future of law during the period 2015 to 2045

the economics of nitrogen fixation by legumes

to peculiar and detailed investigations of them

now in its second edition