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Kong, and Macau; the Jesuit mission; missionary work and strategies and the Chinese Rites Controversy. Among his recent publications are: 500 Hundred Years of Italians in Hong Kong and Macau, coauthored with Angelo Paratico, Alessandra Schiavo and Margot Errante (Hong Kong: Società Dante Alighieri di Hong Kong, 2013; Italian ed., Milan 2014; Chinese ed., Hong Kong 2014); La malinconia immaginativa di Matteo Ricci (Milano: Quaderni del Museo Popoli e Culture, 2016). Irene Eber is Louis Frieberg Professor of Asian Studies (emerita), Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem. Her research is centered on transcultural issues, to which she has recently added Yiddish writings about Chinese history, culture, and Confucianism. Among her works is the recently published monograph Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe. Survival, Co-Existence, and Identity in a Multi-Ethnic City (Berlin – Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2012). She also edited the works of Martin Buber on Chinese philosophy and literature: Martin Buber Werkausgabe, Teil 2./3. Schriften zur chinesischen Philosophie und Literatur (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2013). Pier Francesco Fumagalli, vice prefetto of the Ambrosiana, Milan doctor of the Bibliotheca Ambrosiana, director of the classes of Far Eastern Studies, and Near Eastern Studies at the Accademia Ambrosiana. Contract professor of Chinese Culture at Catholic University of Milan in Brescia; adjoint professor (2008-2014) of the Institute of Christianity and Cross-cultural Studies at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou; Consultant of the Institute of Morality and Religions, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Director of the book series: Asiatica Ambrosiana, vols. I-VIII and Orientalia Ambrosiana, vols. II-V. Recent publications include: “Faith, Science and Social Harmony. The Dialogue among Jews, Christians and Muslims, 1913-2013,” in: L’educazione nella società asiatica – Education in Asian Societies, ed. Kuniko Tanaka, (Milano – Roma: Biblioteca Ambrosiana – Bulzoni Editore, 2014), pp. 319-330. Marián Gálik is professor emeritus of Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. His research comprises modern and contemporary Chinese literature, traditional Chinese literature, Sino-Western comparative literature and partly philosophy, Sino-Western intellectual history, the sacred and the secular in Israel, Judah and China in the first millennium B.C. The Monumenta Serica Institute published his monograph Influence, Translation and Parallels. Selected Studies on the Bible in China (Nettetal: Steyler Verlag, 2004). Recently his seminal work Mao Dun and Modern Chinese Literary Criticism (1969) was translated into Chinese: Mali’an Gaolike 馬立安•高利克, Mao Dun yu Zhongguo xiandai wenxue piping 茅盾與 中國現代文學批評 (Xin Taibei shi: Hua Mulan wenhua, 2014).
