Vincent Cronin lives in Brittany. He widened his reputation with his outstanding biographies of Christianity's first missionaries to India (A Pearl to India: the Life of Roberto de Nobili) and to China (The Wise Man from the West: Matteo Ricci and his Mission to China), and a range of later biographies - of
| Title | : | The Wise Man from the West: Matteo Ricci and His Mission to China |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (253 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1621640043 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 270Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-1-19 |
| Language | : | English |
Vincent Cronin lives in Brittany. He widened his reputation with his outstanding biographies of Christianity's first missionaries to India (A Pearl to India: the Life of Roberto de Nobili) and to China (The Wise Man from the West: Matteo Ricci and his Mission to China), and a range of later biographies - of Napoleon, Catherine the Great, Louis (XVI) and Antoinette, and his masterly Four Women in Search of an Ideal (Caroline de Berry, Marie D'Agoult, Eve Hanska and Marie Bashkirtseff).
. His book The Last Migration, which won the Heinemann Award, was based on his own journey with the Gashgai of southern Iran. Vincent Cronin, son of the Scottish novelist, A J Cronin is a doyen of English lettersMatteo Ricci, revered as a "Wise Man" by the Chinese. He shows us ancient China, the timeless state, with a civilization older than that wherein Christianity first found expression. He arrived in China in 1582 and died there twenty-eight years later, having developing a deep knowledge of and love for the country, the culture and the people. Because Ricci loved this civilization and honored it, he was able to teach his strange new Christian doctrine with tact and sympathy. The seed of Faith was sown and the crop, even after a century of atheistic communism, continues to grow in present-day China.. He carried much of the technological and philosophical wisdom of the late Renaissance Europe, and thus found favor among the Mandarins, the men of learning who enjoyed high status at the Imperial Court. In the person of Father Ricci these two worlds met, and Vincent Cronin dramatically recreates the romance, the crossed purposes, the potential tragedy of that meeting. This is the amazing story of the famous Jesuit missionary priest to China, Fr. He learned Chinese to discuss with them the problemSchall, S.J., From the Forward"A book which does for once deserve the all too lightly used adjective 'outstanding.' " --— Honor Stacy , New Statesman"A delightfully told story of a truly remarkable man." --—Rodney Gilbert , New York Herald Tribune. "Matteo Ricci was, by any standards, an extraordinary man. One concludes from reading this riveting book just how pertinent Ricci remains to both modern China and to the Church, ever ancient and ever new." --— James VShe could have stopped doing product reviews after she launched her own line, but she keeps pushing more and more information. I am not a fashion eficianado, but I find this book a marvellous insight to the many fabrics and designs of the fashion world, and it clearly provides the many influences and type of designs that people wore in the turbulent war years. It's not advanced enough for use in a graduate level class, even for non-majors, but it is very useful and appropriate for sophomore/junior undergraduates. B.L. He describes how a grassroots network gradually coalesced in his own rural Kentucky county when citizens learned that such a lab might be built there. (Shades of Miss Congeniality?) Of course the guys back at the precinct aren’t going to let her live it down, but it got the job done. A byproduct of my practice was that I started feeling stronger and more confident. Should be required reading for all.. Most of the action takes place in battles in which a band of three warriors, Shal, Ren, and Tarl, fight their way to Tyranthraxus. And about an eagerness, a just plain puzzling eagerness of entrepreneurs and government officials coming into this business. H
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