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number year by year, let us also note that in 2010 is celebrated the beginning of that move on the occasion of the fourth centenary of Matteo Ricci’s death in Beijing (May 11th 1610). In fact, this section presents two contributions in that line. To begin with, Thierry Meynard, from the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, deals with the first ever western edition, after decades of work, of the Analects of Confucius, published in Paris in 1687. It is worth paying attention to some detail: on the engraved illustration of Confucius, reproduced in the article, one can read at the top of the image the words “Guo Xue” or “National Studies”, as if these early Jesuits in China had foreseen the present day fever for such a renewal… But before this translation work had even started—as Zhang Xianqing, from Xiamen University, China, explains in the second contribution—Matteo Ricci’s forerunner Michele Ruggieri had established the first Catholic church in Zhaoqing, as related in a poem by Ou Daren and which is very well commented.
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