Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest who in the 16th century led a Christian mission to China. An accomplished scholar, Ricci travelled extensively and came into contact with senior officials of the Ming Dynasty administration. His story is one of the most important encounters between Renaissance Europe and a China which was still virtually closed to outsiders.

WithMary Laven
Reader in Early Modern History at the University of CambridgeCraig Clunas
Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxfordand

Anne GerritsenReader in History at the University of Warwick

Producer: Simon Tillotson.

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