The First Contact of Chinese and Western View of Friendship Development——A Critique on Ricci Matteo's On Friendship

On Friendship was just the first article Ricci Matteo wrote in Chinese. The success of this paper was no doubt a show of the missionary tactics. It brought to Ricci not only many Chinese friends,but also the test and verification of the right of the missionary tactics,which made great contribution to the later missionary work. As an article written by a foreigner, it set up a bridge between the west and the east,resulted from the crash and fusion of the different cultures