The China that was
Subtitle: China as discovered by the Jesuits at the close of the sixteenth century
By: by L. J. Gallagher, S.J., from the Latin of Nicholas Trigault, S.J.
Contributors: Ricci, Matteo, 1552-1610.; Gallagher, Louis Joseph, 1885-
Publisher: Bruce Publishing Company
Published: 1942
Place of publication: Milwaukee
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: China -- Description and travel
Notes: First published, 1615, as Trigault's introduction to De christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta, ab Societate Jesu, originally written in Italian by Matteo Ricci as a mission diary and rendered into Latin by Trigault. cf. Pref.