...Gianni Criveller Matteo Ricci: A Jesuit in the Ming Court . By Michela Fontana . Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers , 2011 . xv, 319 pp. $44.95 (cloth). A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci, 1552–1610 . By R. Po-chia Hsia . New York : Oxford University...

...Earl Swisher China in the Sixteenth Century: The Journals of Matthew Ricci: 1583–1610 . Translated from the Latin by Louis J. Gallagher , S. J. New York : Random House , 1953 . xxii, 616 . General index, Chinese index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954...

...Rudolf Loewenthal Fonti Ricciane: documenti originali concernenti Matteo Ricci e la storia delle prime relazioni tra l'Europa e la Cina (1579–1615) . Editi e commentati da Pasquale M. d'Elia , S.I. Roma : La Libreria dello Stato , 1942 – 1949 . 3 vols. clxxxvii, 386 (2,000 copies); xxxv...

...Timothy Brook The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci . By Jonathan D. Spence . New York : Viking Penguin , 1984 . New York: Elisabeth Sifton/Penguin, 1985. xv, 350 pp. Maps, Chronology, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $7.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986...

... of the typesetting, the paper stock, the clear layout of the figures, the large size of the volume everything makes the use of this book a true delight. Once Keightley said that the study of oracle-bone inscriptions could become a real passion. With Sources in hand it is certainly an enjoyment. J. A. LEFEUVRE Ricci...

... in Taiwan he took the direction of the Jesuit Dictionary project, which is presently under completion. With other Jesuits, he founded the Taipei Ricci Institute in 1966 and remained its director until November 1996. The Taipei Ricci Institute mourns its founder. Even more than a scholar, he was a man...

...Donald R. Davis, Jr. Criticisms of the frame aside, as a study of religion and literature this book yields terrific new insights and demands new approaches to the perennial questions of great/little or cosmopolitan/vernacular cultural dynamics. The contribution of Ricci's work lies...

... edition appeared in 1476), the latest in the eighteenth. As is generally known, the Pei-t'ang library has mixed origins. Father Verhaeren in an interesting historical sketch writes that it started with the arrival in China of Matteo Ricci in 1583. In 1601, after reaching the capital, Ricci moved swiftly...

...Maya Ranganathan Third, Ricci's work is placed within the framework of what geographer Doreen Massey reconceptualized as “simultaneity of stories-so-far” that is so relevant and significant in this age of globalization. The account of the physical and imaginary “space” in which Sri Lankan Malays...

... de Mendoza (published 1585) and Matteo Ricci (printed in Nicholas Trigault's Latin version, 1615), Martini's work had a considerable influence on the sinophilic writers 764 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also gave documentary backing to the contention...

..., in his inimitable style, provides a learned reverie on Matteo Ricci spun around the concept of Ricci's "ascent" to Peking geographically, intellectually, and spiritually. Joseph Sebes's discussion of Ricci's precursors contains some information but not enough about Michele Ruggieri (1542-1607), who came...

... published his best-selling version of Ricci's History in 1615. But because these missions have been looked at from a Western standpoint, and have been used to point up conclusions about Western society, the historiographical balance has been very uneven. It is therefore particularly welcome that John Young...

... of a recent exemplar, George H. Dunne's Generation of Giants (University of Notre Dame, 1962), not mentioned (but not much is) in the bibliography. It is not really about the missionaries at all, certainly not about the nuts and bolts of their work. Matteo Ricci figures prominently. Were there an index...

... University Press, 1988. xxxiv, 332 pp. $19-95. This volume, based on a 1982 symposium in Chicago, contains nine lengthy studies by specialists in the history of Chinese relations with the West. Jonathan D. Spence, in his inimitable style, provides a learned reverie on Matteo Ricci spun around the concept...

... of PLA action in Tibet, Korea, the Taiwan Strait, India, Vietnam, the Xisha and Zhenbao Islands is indispensable for the advanced as well as the beginning student of Chinese military behavior. ALLEN S. W H I T I N G University of Arizona The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. By JONATHAN D. SPENCE. New York...

... introduces the scientific and religious strategies employed by Ricci and Trigault (chapter 2) and Verbiest (chapter 3) as a prologue to her extended analysis of the French mission to China (chapters 4–7). This choice might give the impression that all China Jesuits belonged in an uninterrupted line...

... of Matthew Ricci: 1688-1610 , trans, from the Latin [of Nicholas Trigault, S. J.] by Louis J. Gallagher, S. J. (New York: Random House, 1953). Gallagher had earlier published a translation of the first part of this work, relating to the customs and institutions of China, under the title of The China...

..., Italy has a long tradition of Chinese studies, suggested by such names as Marco Polo and Matteo Ricci. It is a tradition full of character and vitality, and one which has made contributions of great consequence both to sinology and to learning in general. The accounts left by the Italian merchants...

... everywhere." Michel Cartier, in "Aux origines de la politiques des Lumieres: La Chinese vue par Matteo Ricci," examines a chapter of Ricci's journal that describes the political and administrative institutions of the late Ming dynasty. Cartier contends that Ricci's portrayal of the Chinese government...

...: Hong Kong University Press, 1983), of narrower scope, but which reinforces many of Gernet's points; Jonathan Spence's The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci (New York: Viking, 1984), which gives us a stimulating look at Ricci's mental world; and now by Ricci's own masterpiece, The True Meaning of the Lord...