De « tout ce qu’il y a sous le ciel » à « l’Empire du milieu » : centralité chinoise et excentricité européenne

Abstract

When the Jesuit Matteo Ricci meets China, at the beginning of the 16th century, European eccentricity and Chinese centrality are in a relationship of complementarity that gives a specific shape to their encounter, far from the contemporary myth of the dialogue of civilizations.