When Did The Jesuits First Go To China?
When Did The Jesuits First Go To China? Summary: The first Jesuits in China. 1549 St. Francis Xavier, a Spanish Jesuit, lands in western Japan. 1583 Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) enters China in Guangdong province, settles first in Nanchang (1595; Jesuits dress as Buddhist monks), then in Nanjing , after 1601 in Beijing . Why did