Dr Anne Gerritsen of the Warwick University History Department will appear on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time at 9am on Thursday 16th April 2015 to discuss Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty:

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest who in the 16th century led a Christian mission to China. An accomplished scholar, Ricci travelled extensively and came into contact with senior officials of the Ming Dynasty administration. His story is one of the most important encounters between Renaissance Europe and a China which was still virtually closed to outsiders. With Mary Laven (Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge), Craig Clunas (Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford), and Anne Gerritsen (Reader in History at the University of Warwick).