The Exotic West
Peter Burke, 6 February 1986
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
by Jonathan Spence.
Faber, 350 pp., £15, April 1985,0 571 13239 1 Show More
by Jonathan Spence.
Faber, 350 pp., £15, April 1985,
Chine et Christianisme: Action et Réaction
by Jacques Gernet.
Gallimard, 342 pp., frs 154, May 1982,2 07 026366 5 Show More
by Jacques Gernet.
Gallimard, 342 pp., frs 154, May 1982,
“... of Ricci’s China mission but on a much longer period. It is a study of this latter kind which Jacques Gernet has provided in his Chine et Christianisme, a book which seems to have appeared just too late for Spence to use it. Gernet deals with the period from Ricci’s arrival in China to the late 17th ... ”
