Imagining China: The View from Europe, 1550-1700 September 16, 2009

As knowledge from trade and travel moved slowly westward, the fantastical picture of China began to take on greater accuracy, yet still remained a land of curiosities. This exhibition displays the first book written in Chinese by a European, Matteo Ricci, founder of the Jesuit China mission.

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