%0 Journal Article
%T The China of the Jesuits: Travels and Experiences of Diego de Pantoja and Adriano de las Cortes
%A Monc車
%A Beatriz
%J Culture & History Digital Journal
%D 2012
%I Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient赤ficas
%R 10.3989/chdj.2012.m101
%X During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries many reports and travel narratives helped to create a more positive image of China around the world. The remarkable efforts of the Society of Jesus were essential to this new view, thanks to a unique policy of evangelization and the personal and ethnographic contributions of some of its members. However, through a comparative analysis of narratives from Diego de Pantoja and Adriano de las Cortes (both Jesuits), we can see how the texts are not just standard doctrinal narratives but also contain personal experiences, selections, interpretations and creative evaluations capable of transforming the reality. Durante los siglos XVI y XVII muchos informes y relatos de viajes contribuyeron a crear una imagen positiva de China. En este empe o destac車 la Compa 赤a de Jes迆s gracias a una singular pol赤tica de evangelizaci車n y a las aportaciones personales y etnogr芍ficas de algunos de sus miembros. Sin embargo, mediante un an芍lisis comparativo de las narrativas de Diego de Pantoja y Adriano de las Cortes, ambos jesuitas, se muestra c車mo los textos no s車lo son doctrina y norma sino tambi谷n experiencia personal, selecci車n, interpretaci車n y creatividad valorativa capaces de transformar la realidad.
%K Jesuits
%K China
%K Evangelizing Policy
%K Experience
%K Interpretation
%K Jesuitas
%K China
%K Pol赤tica de evangelizaci車n
%K Experiencia
%K Interpretaci車n
%U http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/11/53