作者：Shi Xijuan,

“Christian scholar Xu Guangqi and the spread of Catholicism inShanghai”,

Asian Culture and History 7.1 (2015), pp. 199-209.

Abstract: Xu Guangqi, one of the first and most notable Christian scholars in the Ming Dynasty, cast a profound influence on the spread of Catholicism inShanghai. After his conversion, Xu Guangqi successfully proselytized all of his family members by kinship and affinity, a fact that was foundational to the development of Jesuit missionary work inShanghai. His social relationships with pupils, friends, and officials also significantly facilitated the proliferation of Catholicism inShanghai. This paper expands the current body of literature on Chinese-Christian scholar Xu Guangqi and his role in the spread of Catholicism inShanghaiduring the late Ming and early Qing. Though there are several extant studies on this topic, most of them focus on Xu's personal achievements and neglect the areas that this paper picks up: the role of Xu's family and social status in his proliferate evangelism, and the longevity his influence had even beyond his own time. Through this approach, this paper aims to attain a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of Xu Guangqi's influence on the dissemination and perdurance of Catholicism inShanghai.