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300 pages : 22 cm Reprint of 1935 ed., published by Kelly and Walsh, Ltd Includes bibliographical references (page 291) and index The re-discovery of China -- Francis Xavier and his successors -- Ricci the pioneer -- Ricci and his colleagues -- The feat of Benedict goes -- Imperial persecution under Shen Chueh -- Hsu Kuang Ch'i, The grand secretary -- John Adam Schaal and the Manchus -- Imprisonment and death of Schaal -- The beginning of the rites controversy -- Ferdinand Verbiest and the Emperor K'ang Hsi -- The coming of the French Jesuits -- K'ang Hsi and the Missionaires -- Charles de Tournon, the Papal Legate -- Mezzabarba, the second envoy -- Yung Cheng and the decree of suppression -- Missionary martyrs in the reign of Ch'ien Lung

Author

Charles Wilfrid Allan

Publisher

Arlington, Va.: University Publications of America

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780890930779

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, Humanities