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 century, and ... ”
