ANALYSIS: The cardinal’s visit to Shanghai last month carries a special significance in Vatican-China relations.

The Western bronze cannon was then brought back to China by the Jesuits in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Ming Dynasty, which fought the Manchus, employed Jesuit priests to cast cannons that ...

During Lent, Catholics in China are meditating on aging and illness through the lens of Christian hope, drawing inspiration ...

According to the code of the Ming Dynasty, foreigners who died in China had to be buried in Macao. The Jesuits made a special plea to the court, requesting a burial plot in Beijing in view of ...

These works were painted at the Jesuit orphanage art school at Xujiahui (徐家匯 ... a collection of arts and crafts items representing the newly formed Republic of China at the 1915 Panama-Pacific ...

A General Map Comprizing China, Chinese-Tartary & Tibet drawn from the Paricular Maps of the Jesuits together with the countries between Kashgar and the Caspian Sea laid down according to the Oriental ...