Author: Zhang Xiping
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 750850982x
2006; Paperback;188*245mm;173pages

Matteo Ricci (1552 – 1610), an Italian missionary , was the first foreigner who translated the Four Confucian Classics into Latin and introduced them to Europe . He lived in China for 28 years, and tried his best to blend into the Chinese society by speaking, writing and dressing in Chinese ways. He published over a dozen books in Chinese, in Which he expressed hisbest wishes to bridge the East and the West and Chinese culture and European culture.

Table of Contents


A New Page of the Cultural Communication between China and Europe
The Foreign Missionaries in the Royal Palace
Chinese Scholars and Western Missionaries
of Western Astronomy and Calendar
From Matteo Ricci ‘s World Map to the Missionaries ‘s Maps of China
of Other Western Sciences and Technologies
of Western Art
of Western Ideolohy and Literature
The Development of Christianity in China
of Chinese Culture to the West “Chinese Fashion “ in Europe in the 18th Century