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Jonathan SpenceThe Memory Palace Of Matteo Ricci
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1984A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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Jonathan D. Spence
Jonathan D. Spence was born in 1936 in Surrey, England. From 1993 to 2008, he was a Sterling Professor of history at Yale University, where he specialized in Chinese history. Spence has published more than a dozen books on China, including The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci and The Search for Modern China. He has been awarded many honors for his scholarship, including the William C. DeVane Medal of the Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (1952); a Guggenheim Fellowship (1979); the Los Angeles Times History Prize (1982); the Vursel Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1983); and a MacArthur Fellowship (1988). He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985), the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress (1988), and the American Philosophical Society (1993), and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy (1997).
Matteo Ricci
Matteo Ricci was a Jesuit priest born in Macerata, Italy, in 1552. In 1571 he entered the Jesuit order in Rome, where he was trained in theology, humanities, and science. Once he completed his training, he apprenticed for five years in India and Macao before going to China in 1583 as a missionary.
