Abstract
AbstractIntroduction The meeting and interaction between two cultures is a dynamic process of creative transformation. The entrance and subsequent penetration of Indo-Buddhist culture into China during the Han and Tang dynasties produced fundamental changes in Chinese society and had a profound impact on Chinese thought and behaviour. The coming of the Nestorian and Catholic missionaries from Central Asia and Europe in the eighth and then the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries also sent shock waves through the Chinese intellectual and social world, resulting in a reevaluation of traditional Confucian culture and the emergence of new ideas and new cultural forms. The latter part of this second movement — the Confucian response to Christian culture as introduced by the Jesuit missionaries — forms the background of this paper.
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