This was the topic of my contribution to a recently published book on The Dutch Trading Companies as Knowledge Networks.What particularly interested me was not so much the mission itself, as the way that the report of it published a decade later was co-opted in different ways by certain Catholics in both Antwerp and Amsterdam as a way of giving a more positive spin to the activities of Jesuit missions in China.
That report, it must be said, was not only compendious, but also copiously and beautifully illustrated.
