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HOSNE, Ana Carolina. Confrontar al “bárbaro”: la mirada china sobre los europeos entre los siglos XVI y XVII*. Prismas [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.1, pp.9-28. ISSN 1852-0499.

Facing the “barbarian”. Chinese views of Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries

This article examines Chinese records on Europeans -from the arrival of the Portuguese in the South China Sea in the early 16th century, to that of different generations of Jesuit missionaries as from the end of that century- in which they were named yi 夷, a term usually translated as “barbarian” into European languages. The first part of this article analyzes the theoretical background around the concept of yi, as well as the question of its first translations as “barbarian” by Europeans in the 17th century. The second part focuses on Chinese sources on the first Portuguese who reached the South China Sea in the early 16th century -called Folangji- regarded as yi in different sources during the Ming period, until their later establishment in Macao. The third section examines the Jesuit China mission, founded in 1583, which encouraged exchanges in diverse fields of knowledge in literati and scholarly circles, in different cities. However, in other scenarios outside these groups, the Jesuit missionaries could not avoid being called yi. Concluding remarks reflect on the different situations in which Europeans in the Middle Kingdom were regarded as yi by the Chinese.

Palavras-chave : Barbarians; China; Europe; Ming; Folangji; Jesuitas.

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