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 | #1287872 in Books |  Columbia University Press |  2009-09-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.10 x.90 x5.60l,.70 | File type: PDF | 192 pages

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||12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| A beautiful, thoughtful little book.|By David Marshall|Mateo Ricci was a contemporary of William Shakespeare, and in his own way, every bit as brilliant. Like many founders -- Socrates, Confucius, Lao Zi, Jesus -- he seemed to summarize in his person and teachings several deep insights that different followers would develop into systems of their own. Ricci argued that Class|About the Author|Timothy Billings holds advanced degrees in sinology from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and in English literature from Cornell University. For more than ten years he has been a professor at Middlebury Coll

"On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."—Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601

Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship—the first book to be written in Chinese by a European—that instantly became a late Ming best seller.

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.On Friendship: One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince   |  Matteo Ricci. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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