Wise Man Of The WestMatteo Ricci, an early recruit of the Jesuit order, was sent to China as a missionary in 1582. If he approached the Emperor with a Bible in one hand, in the other he carried much of the accumulated technological and philosophical wisdom of the late Renaissance Europe, and thus found favour among the Mandarins, the men of learning who enjoyed high status at the Imperial Court. He learned Chinese the better to discuss with them the problems in science and technology, as also questions of religion and the hereafter. But his progress was not unopposed, for the Wise Man from the West came to be seen as an unsettling element in a too-settled society. Ricci died in 1610, disappointed in his ambition to convert the Emperor, and with him the whole of China, to Christianity. But the seed was sown and the crop, even after almost a century of atheistic communism, continues to grow in present-day China. |
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Contents
Cover | |
CALL TO THE EAST | |
BREAKING THE SEAL | |
PARADISE REVEALED | |
GAINING GROUND | |
BONZE INTO GRADUATE | |
UP THE IMPERIAL CANAL | |
A BANQUET IN NANKING | |
WITHIN THE FORBIDDEN CITY | |
THE CASTLE OF BARBARIANS | |
CLASH WITH THE BUDDHISTS | |
ADORERS OF THE CROSS | |
THE QUEST FOR CATHAY | |
UNLESS THE GRAIN | |
THE END OF THE MISSION | |
NOTE | |
PRISONERS OF THE EUNUCH | |