Table of Contents

Prologue
1: Macerata and Rome
2: Portuguese Seas
3: Macau
4: Zhaoqing
5: Ruggieri
6: Shaozhou
7: Nanchang
8: Nanjing
9: Beijing
10: True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven
11: Laying the Foundations
12: The Man of Paradox
Epilogue
Chinese Glossary
Appendix
Magistrate's Verdict in adultery accusation against Michele Ruggieri
Sources
Index

About the Author

A native of Hong Kong, R. Po-chia Hsia was educated in his home town, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. He is a specialist on early modern Europe and on the social and cultural exchanges between China and the West. Author and editor of a dozen books, with translations into Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and German, Hsia has received signal academic honours in many countries. He is a member of the Academia Sinica and the Edwin Erle Sparks
Professor of History, Religious Studies, and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Reviews

`Hsia enables us to see the Jesuit's achievement in a much fuller and richer context than hitherto... he deserves our considerable gratitude for leaving us with such a vivid and affecting, yet critically acute, portrait.
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Simon Ditchfield, University of York