From Milan to Hong Kong : 150 years of mission : Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, 1858-2008 / Gianni Criveller.
Also available in Chinese under title: Cong Milan dao Xianggang : 150 nian chuanjiao shiming : Zongzuo waifang chuanjiaohui, 1858-2008 從米蘭到香港 : 150年傳教使命 : 宗座外方傳教會, 1858-2008.

Contents:
ROMAN MALEK S.V.D. and GIANNI CRIVELLER P.I.M.E.: Light a Candle. Encounters and Friendship with China. Introduction to the Festschrift -- Tabula gratulatoria -- BARBARA HOSTER: Shen Zuyi’s Painting Zhu song. An Explanatory Note Dedicated to Father Angelo S. Lazzarotto -- GEROLAMO FAZZINI: The Profile of Father Angelo Lazzarotto -- CHEN CUNFU 陈村富: 怀念我的老朋友 Father Angelo S. Lazzarotto -- GIANNI CRIVELLER P.I.M.E. (comp.): Bibliography (1950–2010) of Angelo S. Lazzarotto.

I. PAOLO DE TROIA: Cathay, China. Two Names, One Country. A Three Centuries Long Misunderstanding -- TIZIANA LIPPIELLO: A Confucian Adage for Life: Empathy (shu) in the Analects -- CHIARA PICCININI: The Xiguo jifa. Treatise on Western Mnemonic Arts by Matteo Ricci S.J. Its Importance in Chinese Language Learning -- ELISABETTA CORSI: From the Aristoteles latinus to the Aristoteles sinicus. Fragments of an Unfinished Project -- EUGENIO MENEGON: Memento Mori. Preparing for Death in China and Europe during the Early Modern Era -- PAN FENG-CHUAN: God, Sinner, and Saintly Governance. François Noël and Renzui zhizhong -- ZBIGNIEW WESOŁOWSKI S.V.D.: The European Search for a Universal Language and the German Search for Clavis Sinica. The Role of Chinese Characters in Leibniz’s Theory of Signs.

II. NOËL GOLVERS: Litterae Indipetae from the Jesuit Provincia Flandro-Belgica 1640/1660–1700 -- CLAUDIA VON COLLANI: A Collection of Documents Concerning the Chinese Rites Controversy in the Biblioteca Queriniana in Brescia -- PIER FRANCESCO FUMAGALLI: Ancient Chinese Cultural Treasures in Milan -- MATTEO NICOLINI-ZANI: Christian Monastic Literature in China. Preliminary Survey and Bibliography.

III. PAUL RULE: On Being Chinese and Christian. Some Idiosyncratic Reflections on the History of the Catholic Church in China -- R.G. TIEDEMANN: The Controversy over the Formation of an Indigenous Clergy and the Establishment of a Catholic Hierarchy in China, 1846–1926 -- ELISA GIUNIPERO: Pius XI and the Inquiry into Communism in China -- BETTY ANN MAHEU M.M.: John Paul II and the Charism of Persuasion -- AGOSTINO GIOVAGNOLI: Ostpolitik: a Historiographical Assessment -- SANTIAGO MIRO: What is the Significance of Calling Victims of Political Repression “Martyrs”? -- JEROOM HEYNDRICKX C.I.C.M.: A New Encounter Between the Catholic Church and China -- GIANCARLO POLITI P.I.M.E.: The List of Chinese-born Bishops.

IV. PETER BARRY M.M.: Cooperation Between P.I.M.E. and Maryknoll During World War II -- ANTHONY LAM: Sino-Vatican Diplomatic Relations in World War II. A Hong Kong Perspective.

V. CLARA BULFONI: Electronic Communication in China -- ALESSANDRA C. LAVAGNINO: Gao Xingjian. A Chinese Cosmopolitan Writer.

Local access dig.pdf. [Malek-Light a candle.pdf]

Contents -- Foreword – Preface
Introduction from the 2011 Edition
List of Ricci's Extant Letters
Acknowledgements
The Return of Ricci's Letters to China
The Role of Ricci's Letters for My Work as Biographer
A Chinese Correspondence that Ricci Began
An Odyssey of Interreligious Dialogue
A Breach in Ricci's Existential Journey
Pioneer of Chinese-Western Dialogue & Cultural Exchange

Fully Translated Letters
Letter 7: To Martino de Fornari - Padua
Letter 10: To Claudio Acquaviva - Rome
Letter 36: To Girolamo Costa - Rome
Letter 40: To Giovanni Battista Ricci - Rome
Letter 54: To João Álvares- Rome

Translated Excerpts of Letters
Excerpts from Letter 9: To Juan Bautista Roman
Excerpts from Letter 20: To Claudio Acquaviva
Excerpts from Letter 25: To Duarte de Sande
Excerpts from Letter 53: To Francesco Pasio

Appendix 1: Biographical Notes on People Mentioned
Appendix 2: Acknowledgements from the 2011 Edition
Appendix 3: Images of Original Autographs
About the Contributors and Editors
About The Beijing Center
Bibliography

The background of Matteo Ricci: the shaping of his intellectual and scientific endowment. Matteo Ricci’s ascent to Beijing / Gianni Criveller -– The portrait of Matteo Ricci. Matteo Ricci, the Nantang Church, and the introduction of Roman Catholic Church architecture to Beijing / César Guillén Nuñez.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
See Publisher information.

Contents keywords: Nestorian experience – Franciscan mission of the Yuan dynasty –Jesuit mission – Ratio Studiorum – mendicant orders – missionary theology of the 16th-17th centuries – Dominican, Jesuit theologians – accommodation – Valignano, Ruggieri, Ricci, Catechisms and Doctrina Christiana – indigenous clergy – Three teachings (Sanjiao) – Christological controversy – Ruggieri, True Record of the Lord of Heaven - Chinese poems – Christological texts – Ricci, Catechetical conversations, True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven - Diego de pantoja, posthumous collection – João da Rocha, Introduction to the Doctrine of the Lord of Heaven, The Method of the Rosary - João Soerio, Nicolò Longobardo, Alfonso Vagnoni, Manoel Dias (the younger), Adam Schall von Bell – Life of Giulio Aleni: scientific publications, life in Fujian. apostolate, Fujian persecution, Nestorian stele and crosses in Quanzhou, The True Origin of All Things, Dominican reaction, The Song of a Holy Dream, Fifty Additional Sentences, Doctrina Christiana, The Life of Michael Zhang, [Yang Tingyun, Matteo Ricci] , The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, The Illustrated Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Evangelicae Historie Imagines, Ricci and the origin of Christian art in China, Da Rocha’s use of Nadal’s model, Schall’s Pictures Offered to the Emperor, Four Character Classic of the Holy Religion of the Lord of Heaven, Learned Conversations of Fuzhou, Introduction to the Incarnation of the Lord of Heaven, The Diary of Oral Exhortations - Converts & sympathizers: Xu Guangqi, Yang Tingyun, Zheng Geng, Ye Xianggao, Zuo Guangxian – Anti-Christian movement: persecution in Nanjing - Qingshu jingtan, Shengchao zuopi, Yuandao Poxieji, Shengchao Poxieji, Pixieji, Budeyi, The Concept of God. Jesus as God Incarnate - theological justifications of the catechisms – Aleni’s dialogue with Chinese sages, saints.

"Chinese text and Italian translation of:
(1) Matteo Ricci’s biography written by Giulio Aleni, Daxi xitai Li xiansheng xingji 大西西泰利 先生行蹟, 1630, with annotations (pp. 35-83).
(2) Postface by Li Jiubiao. 李九標
(3) Anastatic reprint of the Chinese text, ARSI Jap.Sin. III, 23.3b (pp. 89-126).
(4) Petition by Wu Daonan 吳道南 for a burial plot for Matteo Ricci, 1610 (pp. 127-133).
(5) Stone inscription by Wang Yinglin 王應麟 in honour of Matteo Ricci, 1615 (pp. 135-141).

The book contains also: an introduction by Gianni Criveller (pp. 11-24); an essay on the contents and style of Ricci’s biography, by Savio Hon Tai-fai (pp. 25-33); biographies of the Chinese and European persons mentioned in Aleni’s work (pp. 143-172); bibliography (pp. 173-174).

This is an enlarged and supplemented version of: La vita di Matteo Ricci scritta da Giulio Aleni (1630), ed. by Gianni Criveller, Macerata-Brescia: Fondazione internazionale P. Matteo Ricci-Fondazione Civiltà Bresciana/Centro Giulio Aleni, 2010." -- [From EUCHINA announcement by Matteo Nicolini Zani, Oct. 20, 2010].