2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Missionaries in China: The Ethics of Exporting Ethics
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In 2006, my wife and I had the privilege of visiting the Zhalan cemetery and viewing the gravesites of Matteo Ricci and his Jesuit colleagues, Johann Adam Schall and Ferdinand Verbiest. These sites, located outside the old city gate in Beijing, were restored after the Cultural Revolution and commemorated in 1983, on the 400th anniversary of Ricci’s arrival in China. The memory of the Jesuit mission to China is now carefully preserved, for it was the Jesuits who were largely responsible for opening up China to Europe in the modern period. This early encounter between East and West endures in significance.1