Hu Ruowang's Questions Author: Jonathan Spence Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press

This book records the miraculous life experience of a Chinese Catholic named Hu Ruowang in France in the 18th century in the form of a diary, and supplements the history of cultural and religious exchanges between China and foreign countries in the early period. The huge differences between Eastern and Western cultures made this Chinese's journey to France full of hardships and twists and turns, and his soul was also tortured, so that he ended up in a mental hospital. This book reproduces Hu Ruowang's adventures more than 200 years ago, and attempts to give historical and cultural explanations to his doubts.