The Memory Palace of Matteo RicciThis book is not only a rich and compelling narrative about Ricci's life in Italy, India, and China, but also a significant work of global history, in which intellectual, social, military, maritime, and religious themes are drawn together, juxtaposing the world of Counter-Reformation Europe with that of Ming China. |
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Page 24
... ideograph for war , pronounced wu . To present wu in the form of a memory image that the reader will remember , he first cuts the ideograph into two sections on a diago- nal axis running from upper left to lower right . This dissection ...
... ideograph for war , pronounced wu . To present wu in the form of a memory image that the reader will remember , he first cuts the ideograph into two sections on a diago- nal axis running from upper left to lower right . This dissection ...
Page 137
... ideographs so that , after only five months in Macao , he felt he could write out correctly any ideograph he was shown . He added ( in language his former rhetoric teacher surely ap- preciated ) , “ I have already placed in my head a ...
... ideographs so that , after only five months in Macao , he felt he could write out correctly any ideograph he was shown . He added ( in language his former rhetoric teacher surely ap- preciated ) , “ I have already placed in my head a ...
Page 227
... ideograph to express the closeness and sexual ambiguity of these unions , substituting the component meaning " female " for the compo- nent signifying " physical strength " that was conventionally used in the ideograph for " male ...
... ideograph to express the closeness and sexual ambiguity of these unions , substituting the component meaning " female " for the compo- nent signifying " physical strength " that was conventionally used in the ideograph for " male ...
Contents
THE APOSTLE IN THE WAVES | 59 |
THE HUIHUI | 93 |
THE ROAD TO EMMAUS | 128 |
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