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On Friendship: One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince
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"On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendshipthe first book to be written in Chinese by a Europeanthat instantly became a late Ming best seller.
On Friendship distilled the best ideas on friendship from Renaissance Latin texts into one hu...
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendshipthe first book to be written in Chinese by a Europeanthat instantly became a late Ming best seller.
On Friendship distilled the best ideas on friendship from Renaissance Latin texts into one hu...