Download or read book A Jesuit in the Forbidden City written by R. Po-chia Hsia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable life of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, one of the most famous missionaries of all time and the founder of the Catholic Mission in China. This is the first critical biography to use all relevant sources, not only in western languages but in Chinese as well.