Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Preface D.E. Mungello ix
List of Abbreviations xiii
Map: China in the time of Candida Xu xv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Roots of the Xu Family: The Generations before Candida Xu 15
Chapter 2 Childhood and Married Life 31
Chapter 3 The Widowed Years 63
Chapter 4 The Legacy of Candida Xu 99
Appendices:
Appendix 1 "Baolun tang gao" $$$. Autobiographical Preface by Hesha $$$ (Xu Zuanzeng $$$). Translation of Portions Related to Candida Xu 115
Appendix 2 Xu Zuanzeng's Biography of His Mother Candida Xu. Translation of "Compendio de la vida y la muerte de Doña Candida, sacado de un librito, que imprimió su hijo D. Basilio Hiù." Translated by Matt Hill 121
Appendix 3 Xu Yunxi, Foreword to the 1938 edition of Yiwei Zhongguo fengjiao taitai $$$ 133
Bibliography 135
Index with Glossary 155
List of Illustrations and Maps
Cover: Section of a Portrait of Candida Xu. From: Philippe Couplet, Histoire d'une dame chrétienne de la Chine. Paris 1688.
Frontispiece: Portrait of Candida Xu. From: Philippe Couplet, Histoire d'une dame chrétienne de la Chine, Paris 1688, preceding p. 1. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections, James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota Library.
Map: China in the time of Candida Xu. Map produced by the Geospatial Lab of the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. XV
Introduction
Figure 1. Title page of Philippe Couplet, Histoire d'une dame chrétienne de la Chine. Paris 1688. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections, James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota Library. 7
Chapter 1 Roots of the Xu Family
Figure 2. Portrait of Xu Guangqi. From: Xu shi paoyan $$$ (Memorials and Correspondence of Xu Guangqi). Shanghai: Tushanwan yinshuguan, 1933, following the title page. Copy held in the Monumenta Serica Institute Library. 24
Chapter 2 Childhood and Married Life
Figure 3. A view of the walled city of Shanghai (Ming period). From: virtualshanghai.net/Maps/Source?ID=356 (accessed 15 July, 2020) 32
Figure 4. Eighteenth-century map of Shanghai. From: (Qianlong) Shanghai xian zhi $$$, Qianlong 15 (1750), shou juan $$$, huitu $$$. 33
Figure 5. The Xu residence in Shanghai. From: Auguste M. Colombel, S.J., "Histoire de la Mission du Kiang-nan en trois parties." Shanghai: Biblioteca Major Zikawei, 1900. Manuscript copy, courtesy of the Ricci Institute Library, University of San Francisco. 34
Figure 6. Woman reeling silk thread using cold water. From: Xu Guangqi $$$, Nongzheng quanshu $$$, juan 33, "Cansang" $$$ (Sericulture), Section "Canshi tupu" $$$ (Illustrations of Things [Related to] Silkworms). Tongzhi 13 (1874) ed. Shanghai: Wenhai shuju. Copy held in the Monumenta Serica Institute Library. 39
Chapter 3 The Widowed Years
Figure 7. Image Coronation of Mary and beginning of the meditation about the fifth Joyful Mystery. From: Song nianzhu guicheng $$$. Beijing 1638. Courtesy of Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma, copy held in the section Manoscritti e Rari (72.B.298). 75
Figure 8. Images of Candida Xu's cross. From: Histoire d'une dame chrétienne de la Chine, between pp. 140 and 141. Courtesy of the Archives and Special Collections, James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota Library. 96
Chapter 4 The Legacy of Candida Xu
Figure 9. Portraits of Xu Guangqi and Candida Xu. From: Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, S.J. Description geographique, historique … de la Chine et de la Tartaric chinoise. Paris 1735, Tome III, between pp. 120 and 121. Copy held in the Monumenta Serica Institute Library. 106
Back cover: Image of Candida Xu's cross. Section of Figure 8.
