China in the Sixteenth Century: The Journals of Matthew Ricci, 1583-1610Journals of a pioneer Jesuit missionary in China before doors were closed to the outside world. |
Contents
Concerning the Mission to China Undertaken | 1 |
The Fertility and the Products of the Chinese Empi | 10 |
Concerning the Mechanical Arts Among the Chines | 19 |
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