Collision and Reconciliation Between Confucianism and Catholicism in the Late Ming Dynasty and the Early of Qing Dynasty

Christianity re-entered China in the late Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty.Matteo Ricci,clothed in the Confucian way,started his missionary work,which oriented the process of contact,communication,collision, and reconciliation between Confucianism and Catholicism.Wang Zheng,a native of Shanxi and also a renowned Confucian scholar,was among the first to be converted.As a a devout Catholicism,Wang Zheng translated into Chinese many western scientific books,and he attempted at reconciling Confucianism with the tenets of Catholicism, which lead to his most influential book,Supreme Discourse on the Love of Man and Awe of Heaven.This paper is to discuss the dialogue and reconciliation between Confucianism and Catholicism,and the confrontation of Chinese and western cultures.