Vol. 23 (2020): Cromohs
Book Reviews

Giulia Falato, Alfonso Vagnone’s Tongyou Jiaoyu, Brill 2020: reviewed by Elisa Frei

Elisa Frei
Boston College-University of York-University of Macerata
Cover image Cromohs 23, 2020, background: Jan Gossaert, Portrait of a Merchant, ca. 1530, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, National Gallery of Art. Open access image

Published 2021-03-24

Keywords

  • Tongyou Jiaoyu,
  • Alfonso Vagnone,
  • Jesuit missionaries,
  • Chinese pedagogy,
  • European pedagogy

Abstract

Review of

Giulia Falato, Alfonso Vagnone’s Tongyou Jiaoyu (On the Education of Children, c. 1632): The Earliest Encounter Between Chinese and European Pedagogy (Boston-Leiden: Brill, 2020)