in China, Volume One : 635-1800 ( Leiden : Brill, 2001 ) , pp. 879-906. 9 The theme of the Confucian-Christian synthesis as part of Ricci ’ s accommodation to Chinese culture has been deve-loped by D. E. Mungello, Curious Land : Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology ( Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1989 ) .
 
10 Ibid., p. 13. 11 Donald F. Lach and Edwin J. Van Kley, Asia in the Making of Europe, Vol. III : A Century of Advance, Book 4 : East Asia ( University of Chicago Press, 1993 ) , p. 1565. 12 Trigault was born in Douai in the Spanish Netherlands. The town became part of France in 1668. 13 The text forms part of Fonti Ricciane : documenti originali concernenti Matteo Ricci e la storia delle prime relazioni tra l ’ Europa e la Cina ( 1579-1615 ) , Editi e commentati da Pasquale M. d ’ Elia, S. I. ( Roma : La Libreria dello Stato, 1942-1949 ) , 3 vols. 14 Mungello, Curious Land, p. 76. An English translation was published as : The history of that great and renowned monarchy of China. Wherein all the particular provinces are