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The Wise Man from the West: Matteo Ricci and His Mission to China

The Wise Man from the West: Matteo Ricci and His Mission to China

Cronin, Vincent

Paperback

Historical FiguresReligious BiographiesChinese History

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1621640043
ISBN13: 9781621640042
Publisher: Ignatius Pr
Published: Oct 12 2016
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

This is the amazing story of the famous Jesuit missionary priest to China, Fr. Matteo Ricci, revered as a Wise Man by the Chinese. He arrived in China in 1582 and died there twenty-eight years later, having developing a deep knowledge of and love for the country, the culture and the people.

Before Ricci's heroic mission, China was an unexplored land bordering on the vague, mysterious Cathay, and the West was no more than a rumor to the learned Mandarins, a distant unknown region lying beyond the bounds of geography. In the person of Father Ricci these two worlds met, and Vincent Cronin dramatically recreates the romance, the crossed purposes, the potential tragedy of that meeting. He shows us ancient China, the timeless state, with a civilization older than that wherein Christianity first found expression.

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