Title: Mission to China
Description: Tells the story of the first Jesuit mission to China. This title shows how, confronting enormous challenges, the Italian priest Matteo Ricci and a tiny handful of learned companions gained permission from the notoriously xenophobic Wanli emperor to settle in this fabled Forbidden City and preached the virtues of Western art and science.
Subjects: Missions, History, Religion, Social conditions, Conditions sociales, 15.75 history of Asia, 11.54 Roman Catholicism, Jezuïeten, Missie, Jesuits, Jesuiten, Missions, china