In the Light and Shadow of an Emperor: Tomás Pereira, SJ (16451708), the Kangxi Emperor and the Jesuit Mission in China

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Artur K. Wardega SJ is Director of the Macau Ricci Institute and a specialist in 20th-century Chinese and French literature. He has written several articles published in the Macau Ricci Institutes quarterly Chinese Cross Currents and in scholarly journals in China and abroad. His recent publications include a French translation of the novel Lishan nongchang by the renowned Hakka writer Zhong Lihe (191560) under the title La Ferme de la Montagne Li (Arras 2010). He edited the 2007 MRI Symposium proceedings under the title Belief History and Individual in Modern Chinese Literary Culture (Cambridge 2009) and (with Anders Hansson) Portrait of a Jesuit: Matteo Ricci (MRI Jesuítas Publication Series; Macau 2010). Recently he edited a trilingual book jointly published by the MRI and Centre Sèvres of Paris Playing Bach in France and in China: An Encounter of Musicians in Macau (Macau 2011).António Vasconcelos de Saldanha is Full Professor at Lisbon Technical University and Visiting Professor at the University of Macau. He is the Editor of the journal Daxiyangguo: Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Asiáticos and Vice President of the Instituto do Oriente of Lisbon Technical University. His publications include articles and books on the history of political ideas and international law diplomacy Portuguese imperial institutions Jesuit missions in Asia and Sino-Portuguese relations e.g. De Kangxi para o Papa pela via de Portugal: Documentos relativos à intervenção de Portugal e da Companhia de Jesus na questão dos Ritos Chineses e nas relações entre o Imperador Kangxi e a Santa Sé (Lisbon and Macao 2003). Saldanha is a member of several learned societies and was President of the Instituto Português do Oriente in 200205 and Consul General of Portugal in Macao and Hong Kong for cultural affairs. He is part of the team translating the Acta Pekinensia for the Macau Ricci Institute and is finishing a project of comparative research on the origins of the Jesuit court mission in China.