Song Gang is Associate Professor of Chinese History in the School of Chinese, the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include cultural exchanges between China and the West, with a focus on the intercultural encounter of the Jesuit missionaries and Confucian scholars in late imperial China.

"This volume’s true worth lies... in its academic scope: namely its thorough examination of Christian-Confucian dialogism in the seventeenth century." - Joseph Chadwin, Religious Studies Review

• Introduction – Chapter One: From Literary Dialogue to Cultural Dialogism – Chapter Two: Aleni, Fujian Mission, and Kouduo richao – Chapter Three: Practical Investigations of Heaven and Earth – Chapter Four: Spiritual and Moral Cultivation of Man – Chapter Five: Salvation before the Eyes: Objects, Images, and Liturgies – Conclusion – Appendices – Bibliography – Index and Glossary – Chinese Summary

Song Gang is Associate Professor of Chinese History in the School of Chinese, the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include cultural exchanges between China and the West, with a focus on the intercultural encounter of the Jesuit missionaries and Confucian scholars in late imperial China.

"This volume’s true worth lies... in its academic scope: namely its thorough examination of Christian-Confucian dialogism in the seventeenth century." - Joseph Chadwin, Religious Studies Review

• Introduction – Chapter One: From Literary Dialogue to Cultural Dialogism – Chapter Two: Aleni, Fujian Mission, and Kouduo richao – Chapter Three: Practical Investigations of Heaven and Earth – Chapter Four: Spiritual and Moral Cultivation of Man – Chapter Five: Salvation before the Eyes: Objects, Images, and Liturgies – Conclusion – Appendices – Bibliography – Index and Glossary – Chinese Summary

Song Gang is Associate Professor of Chinese History in the School of Chinese, the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include cultural exchanges between China and the West, with a focus on the intercultural encounter of the Jesuit missionaries and Confucian scholars in late imperial China.

"This volume’s true worth lies... in its academic scope: namely its thorough examination of Christian-Confucian dialogism in the seventeenth century." - Joseph Chadwin, Religious Studies Review

• Introduction – Chapter One: From Literary Dialogue to Cultural Dialogism – Chapter Two: Aleni, Fujian Mission, and Kouduo richao – Chapter Three: Practical Investigations of Heaven and Earth – Chapter Four: Spiritual and Moral Cultivation of Man – Chapter Five: Salvation before the Eyes: Objects, Images, and Liturgies – Conclusion – Appendices – Bibliography – Index and Glossary – Chinese Summary