Books

Missionary Myths

Nicholas Clifford

Christians in ChinaA.D. 600 to 2000Jean-Pierre Charbonnier, Translated by Archbishop M.N.L. Couve de Murville Ignatius Press, $29.95, 664 pp.  Journey to the EastThe Jesuit Mission to China, 1579–1724Liam Matthew BrockeyHarvard University Press, $35, 512 pp. Jean-Pierre Charbonnier, a priest of the Missions Étrangères de Paris, begins his ambitious new book with the (...)


 

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