Cover: Photograph of Ernst Faber, courtesy of the Rev. Ranier Axman, private archive. -- Theodore Nicholas Foss: Necrology of Prof. Donald F. Lach 勞瑞納教授. -- D.E. Mungello: Fact and fantasy in the sexual seduction of Chinese converts by Catholic priests: the case of the 120 martyrs. -- Gad C. Isay: A missionary philosopher in late Qing: Ernst Faber and his intercultural synthesis of human nature. -- Nicolas Standaert: European astrology in early Qing China: Xue Fengzuo’s & Smogulecki’s translation of Cardano’s commentaries on Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos. -- New publications.

"Xue Fengzuo 薛鳳祚, one of the great astronomers of the time, studied with Nikolaus Smogolecki in the Jiangnan region, after having been trained in traditional Chinese astronomy in his youth. Together they wrote Tianbu zhenyuan 天步眞原 (True Source of the Pacing of Heavens, ca. 1646), which introduced the European horoscope." –Cf. N. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, p. 726.