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Matteo Ricci, after four hundred yearsMatteo Ricci 利瑪竇, whose grave lies in the Ming-era Jesuit cemetery now within the precinct of the Beijing Municipal Cadre's School, is a figure who even four-hundred years after his death elicits hopeful commentaries and reflections on inter-cultural respect and understanding. Ricci and his fellow Jesuit missionaries travelled to the 'Far East' to convert and offer salvation to a broader humanity. It is a mission that the Catholic Church, and various other iterations of the Christian tradition, pursue in China to this day.  Fig.1 Matteo Ricci and Xu Guangqi 徐光啓. Photograph: Jeremy Clarke This issue of China Heritage Quarterly takes Matteo Ricci as its focus and our guest editor, Dr Jeremy Clarke SJ, presents material on Ricci's life and significance, present-day commemorative activities related to his passing in 1610, as well as offering an insightful meditation on Xu Guangqi 徐光啓,a much-celebrated Chinese Christian convert, by Aloysius Jin Luxian 金魯賢. In Articles, Pierre Fuller comments on the Bible in China today, while in New Scholarship Bede Bidlack discusses the extraordinary figure Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit, geologist and theologian who was active in China from 1923 to 1946. In this issue we also offer further material related to Shanghai, the focus of our March 2010 issue. In Articles we feature a photographic essay related to the 2010 Expo by Lois Conner while Jonathan Hutt provides a nuanced analysis of Zhang Ruogu 張若谷, a man who thought that the city 'was the descendant of the great European capitals from antiquity to the present day, a progeny that could well bring the ideals of these ancient and alien civilizations to the Far East and into the modern age'. In T'ien Hsia, essays on Shanghai's 'mosquito press' and the 'foreign mentality' retrace other contours of the old Shanghai. Also in New Scholarship, Magnus Fiskesjö discusses a prominent Swedish archaeologist and Duncan Campbell offers a review of a new book on China's 'black tigers' (hei laohu 黑老虎), or stone rubbings. In this issue we also introduce the Australian Centre on China in the World 中华全球研究中心／中華全球研究中心, a research institution recently established at The Australian National University in Canberra. A future issue will focus on the new Centre. My thanks, as ever, to Daniel Sanderson for his assistance in editing, design and layout. —Geremie R. Barmé, The Editor
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