Associate Professor of East Asian History, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
1565 — 1623
Jesuit missionary in China.
1562 — 1607
First Jesuit missionary to cross Asia en route to China.
1669 — 1748
Jesuit missionary, cartographer, and historian in China.
1597 — 1664
Dominican missionary in China who challenged "superstitious" rites performed by new converts.
1668 — 1710
First papal legate to the court of China in the modern period.
1903 — 1990
Historian of Jesuit missions in China.
1837 — 1905
Missionary pastor and vicar apostolic of Beijing (Peking).
1665 — 1741
1606 — 1682
1654 — 1707
1623 — 1680
Jesuit explorer of land routes to China.
1813 — 1860
Vincentian missionary in Mongolia and Tibet.