“What in the world was a Jesuit priest doing in Beijing’s Forbidden City dressed like a Confucian?”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.

For further reading:
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan D. Spence (Viking, 1984)
A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci 1552-1610 by Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (Oxford University Press 2010)