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Magical Tome
- First published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Pages
- 279 pages
- ISBN
- 9780571225170
Mission to China
The outer archives are busy
About this book
Tells the story of the first Jesuit mission to China. This title shows how, confronting enormous challenges, the Italian priest Matteo Ricci and a tiny handful of learned companions gained permission from the notoriously xenophobic Wanli emperor to settle in this fabled Forbidden City and preached the virtues of Western art and science.
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Horror / Dark Elements
Romance
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