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Author: Angelica Giombini

Day #9: Pagodas everywhere

By Angelica Giombini16 August 201624 August 2016 Categories: Ningxia Province, Update

Since we started traveling we have seen pagodas of all shapes and sizes almost everywhere. Kircher also noticed the numerous “towers”, as he calls them, spread everywhere in the country. The pagodas are defined as “ towers superstitiously built by the Chinese all with the same general structure and architecture (…) it has a shape of…

Day #9: What remains of Tangut

By Angelica Giombini16 August 201630 August 2016 Categories: Ningxia Province, Update

 We left our beloved Mongolia on a night train and headed towards the province of Ningxia. We arrived in the city of Yinchuan at 5 am after a long journey on interesting Chinese trains!     The founders of the old Tangut Kingdom chose this city as their capital as it is well placed between the…

Day #6: Exploring the holy mountains

By Angelica Giombini12 August 201612 August 2016 Categories: Datong, Update

Today we went to explore some of the mountains of Northern China! Kircher talks about how the Chinese study and observe mountains with the diligence and rigour of astronomers. Today we can still see the remains of this fascination in the form of countless temples, mansions, paths and grottoes that scatter the mountains. Kircher talks…

Day #5: Tracing the Jesuits’s footsteps…on the Great Wall!

By Angelica Giombini11 August 201612 August 2016 Categories: Datong, Update

Yesterday night we left Beijing on a night train and this morning we arrived in Datong in the current Shanxi province. Leaving Beijing, we will continue our trip towards the West of China trying to follow the route undertaken by Grueber and D’Orville while searching for their traces! This is why, once we arrived in…

Day #4: The Jesuit cemetery in Beijing

By Angelica Giombini11 August 201612 August 2016 Categories: Beijing, Update

One of the greatest evidence of the presence of the missionaries in China is their cemetery; the Zhalan cemetery. The cemetery is located in what is now the Communist Party School and it took a while to convince the guards to let us in to visit it. Here, 53 Jesuits are buried along with 10…

Day #4: The imperial city seen by the Jesuits

By Angelica Giombini11 August 201612 August 2016 Categories: Beijing, Update

Today we went to visit the Imperial City, in the center of Beijing. The Imperial City, or Forbidden City, used to be the residence of the Emperors and until the Republic was forbidden for the public. Kircher in the China Illustrata describes the center of Beijing with this words: “There are vast city walls in the…

Beginning our Expedition!

By Angelica Giombini3 August 20166 August 2016 Categories: Update

  At 8 am tomorrow our flights leave! After all the preparation, we are now ready to put ourselves in the shoes (or maybe funny robes?) of the Jesuits!

Meeting with an expert on Oriental studies: Dr. Polichetti

By Angelica Giombini3 August 20165 August 2016 Categories: Update

  Before we leave for such a research expedition, it is important that we are knowledgeable about the topic that we are going to be researching. This is why we organized a meeting with the Director of the National Museum of Oriental Art ‘Giuseppe Tucci’ in Rome, Dr. Massimiliano A. Polichetti, a man who has dedicated…

Getting in touch with the locals

By Angelica Giombini1 August 20165 August 2016 Categories: Update

Jesuit travelers who arrived in China from Europe were never left alone to their faith. In fact, the Jesuit order in the XVII century was a huge community and had contacts worldwide. Every new Jesuit that arrived had contacts with those already in the country who helped him to integrate himself to the new country…

Drawing the Itinerary

By Angelica Giombini31 July 20165 August 2016 Categories: Update

China is not an easy country to travel for someone who does not know the language. You cannot just arrive and decide day-by-day where and what to do. Why is that? – Very few people speak English – All the signs are in Chinese – Chinese people are 1.3 billion and it seems like most…

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