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in Lisbon and set sail once again. Provana died during the voyage, and Fan returned to Macao alone. From Macao, he travelled north to Beijing for an audience with the Kangxi Emperor that was held on 11 October 1720. No account of his meeting with the emperor has survived, but Fan wrote a short
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soon afterwards. Noël may have travelled ahead, but Provana and Fan remained in Portugal for months, only reaching Rome in February of the next year. Unable to change Clement's mind on the issue of the Chinese rituals, Fan toured
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mentions a ‘Louis Fan’ in the book he published on his experiences in China. Fan died in Beijing on 28 February 1753. He was buried in the Jesuits'
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For the rest of his life, Fan worked as a priest and missionary in China, and apparently as an interpreter for the emperor; the Italian missionary
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to assemble a second mission to attempt to change the pope's mind on the subject. Fan accompanied three Jesuits: Provana,
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Memoirs of Father Ripa during Thirteen Years' Residence at the Court of Peking in the Service of the Emperor of China
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In 1718, Pope Clement XI decided to send Provana back to China, so on 19 May 1719, Provana and Fan boarded the
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Piastra, Stefano (2012), "The Shenjianlu by Fan Shou-yi Reconsidered: New Geo-Historical Notes",
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At the time, the different Catholic orders in China were engaged in a
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from participating in such rituals. The emperor ordered the
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Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579–1724
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Rule, Paul A. (Oct 1994), "Louis Fan Shouyi and Macao",
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on 14 January 1708. The journey allowed Fan to observe
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Fan Shouyi
Traditional Chinese



Simplified Chinese



Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles
Michael Shen Fu-Tsung
Arcadio Huang
Rabban Bar Sauma
Pingyao
Shanxi
Jesuit
Antonio Francesco Giuseppe Provana
controversy
Confucian
ancestral veneration
papal legate
Charles-Thomas Maillard De Tournon
Pope Clement XI
decree
Cum Deus Optimus
Kangxi Emperor
Catholic converts
Jesuits

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