Matteo Ricci - A Jesuit in the Forbidden City (Chinese Edition)

Ronnie Po-Chia Hsias new creation of A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) was brought out by Oxford University Press in 2010 with excellent response, and this book is a Chinese translation edition. This is a biography of Matteo Ricci, which interprets the whole life of this cultural ambassador. This book mainly focuses on the role played by early Jesuits during the exchanges between Chinese and Western culture. The theme takes Catholicisms dissemination in China as example to investigate the collision between Chinese and Western culture and emphasizes the shock of western religion and culture to modern Chinese knowledge transformation. Sinologists such as Jonathan D. Spence have prepared the comments on this Chinese translation edition.