%0 Journal Article %T Rhetorica and Exemplum: The Genesis of Christian Literature in Late Imperial China %J Religions | An Open Access Journal from MDPI %D 2019 %R https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10080465 %X This paper offers a survey of how European rhetoric reached China in the transitional period between the Ming and the Qing dynasties. The focus of my paper is how a verbal ars is transformed into the written ars, thus inaugurating the Christian literature in late imperial China. View Full-Tex %U https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/8/465