De l'autre côté de la terre : la Chine = Na Shirong 那士榮 / Drs. Prosper M. Bernard and Prosper M. Bernard Jr.

The authors are Fr. Prosper Bernard's nephew and grand-nephew.

This book tells the story of Prosper Bernard, SJ (Na Shirong 那士榮, in Chinese), this man, this Jesuit, this Canadian priest who left in 1938 for the other side of the world to China, then troubled by a civil war and the Japanese invasion. He was killed on March 18, 1943, by a commissar of the Japanese occupation army with two other Canadian priests. In 1983, after forty years of silence, we resumed contact with the Catholics of Fengxian. We visited his burial site four times, where a magnificent monument was erected in 1990 in memory of these three Canadian Jesuits. This work aims to make known to Canadians, the Chinese, and all people of the world the life of this other Canadian who, like Norman Bethune, gave his life for the China he loved so much. This is why this book is being published at the same time in Chinese. The book also aims to talk about modern China, our relationship with the Catholics of Fengxian, and the new bonds of friendship created through business and education. (From introduction) 

The visitor : André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia / Liam Matthew Brockey.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

In an age when few people ventured beyond their place of birth, André Palmeiro left Portugal on a journey to the far side of the world. Bearing the title “Father Visitor,” he was entrusted with the daunting task of inspecting Jesuit missions spanning from Mozambique to Japan. A global history in the guise of a biography, The Visitor tells the story of a theologian whose extraordinary travels bore witness to the fruitful contact―and violent collision―of East and West in the early modern era.

In India, Palmeiro was thrust into a controversy over the missionary tactics of Roberto Nobili, who insisted on dressing the part of an indigenous ascetic. Palmeiro walked across Southern India to inspect Nobili’s mission, recording fascinating observations along the way. As the highest-ranking Jesuit in India, he also coordinated missions to the Mughal Emperors and the Ethiopian Christians, as well as the first European explorations of the East African interior and the highlands of Tibet.

Orders from Rome sent Palmeiro farther afield in 1626, to Macau, where he oversaw Jesuit affairs in East Asia. He played a crucial role in creating missions in Vietnam and seized the opportunity to visit the Chinese mission, trekking thousands of miles to Beijing as one of China’s first Western tourists. When the Tokugawa Shogunate brutally cracked down on Christians in Japan―where neither he nor any Westerner had power to intervene―Palmeiro died from anxiety over the possibility that the last Jesuits still alive would apostatize under torture.