BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13567-5c5828fa6c7750a88e3afbb0dca82691@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260417T130442Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101030T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101030T190000 SUMMARY:“The World of Matteo Ricci” DESCRIPTION:\nA sixteenth-century Italian Jesuit\, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous miss ionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China\, Ricc i spent twenty-eight years in the country\, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China and the West by immersing himself in the language and culture of his hosts. Even 400 years later\, he is still o ne of the best known Westerners in China\, celebrated for introducing We stern scientific and religious ideas to China and for explaining Chinese culture to Europe.\n\nThis symposium\, held in partial celebration of t he publication of Ronnie Hsia’s A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo R icci\, 1552–1610 (Cambridge University Press 2010)\, will feature talks by a number of internationally renowned scholars of early modern China\, as well as a musical performance by Joyce Lindorff (Boyer College of Mu sic and Dance\, Temple University)\, who will play selections from the m usic of Ricci’s time in China.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.ps u.edu/event/world-of-matteo-ricci/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

A sixteenth-cen tury Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Missio n in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pionee r in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty-eight years in t he country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China and the West by immersing himself in the language and culture of his hos ts. Even 400 years later, he is still one of the best known Westerners i n China, celebrated for introducing Western scientific and religious ide as to China and for explaining Chinese culture to Europe.

This sym posium, held in partial celebration of the publication of Ronnie Hsia’s A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci, 1552–1610 (Cambri dge University Press 2010), will feature talks by a number of internatio nally renowned scholars of early modern China, as well as a musical perf ormance by Joyce Lindorff (Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple Univ ersity), who will play selections from the music of Ricci’s time in Chin a.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/world-of-matteo-ricc i/

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