Introduction:
The Xu-Ricci Dialogue Institute is a research center under Fudan University’s School of Philosophy. It was launched on May 2010, 400th Anniversary of pioneering Italian Jesuit missioner to China, Father Matteo Ricci. The center is named after Father Ricci and his closest Chinese friend, Paul Xu Guangqi, a prominent scholar-official and the first Catholic in Shanghai. The institute aims to promote academic research, the teaching of religious studies, and dialogue between Chinese and Western cultures and philosophies.
