Datong blog posts

Day #5: Tracing the Jesuits’s footsteps…on the Great Wall!
Yesterday night we left Beijing on a night train and this morning we arrived in Datong in the current Shanxi

Day #6: Exploring the holy mountains
Today we went to explore some of the mountains of Northern China! Kircher talks about how the Chinese study and

Day #6: Whose bells are biggest?
According to a description of Kircher, in a book previous to the China Illustrata, European bells, especially the Erford one