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In Our Time: Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty

Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty

16/04/2015

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Matteo Ricci's 16th-century travels in Ming China.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Matteo Ricci's 16th-century mission to Ming Dynasty China, an important early encounter between east and west.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest who in the 16th century led a Christian mission to China. An accomplished scholar, Ricci travelled extensively and came into contact with senior officials of the Ming Dynasty administration. His story is one of the most important encounters between Renaissance Europe and a China which was still virtually closed to outsiders.

With 

Mary Laven
Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge

Craig Clunas
Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford

and

Anne Gerritsen
Reader in History at the University of Warwick 

Producer: Simon Tillotson.

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