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	Podcast:		In Our Time: Religion
	Episode:		Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:45:24
	Publish Date:		2015-04-16 05:50:00
	Description:		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. With Mary Laven Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge Craig Clunas Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford and Anne Gerritsen Reader in History at the University of Warwick Producer: Simon Tillotson.
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