ABSTRACT
Book VI covers a considerable period: more than two years, from July 1634 to September 1636. Almost the entire year 1635 is a lacuna, for it is represented by eleven entries made on only seven days. Aleni spent most of those two years in southern Fujian: he left Fuzhou in the latter part of 1634 (VI. 6), and the first entry in which he reappears there is dated almost two years later (VI.42). The Annual Letters of 1635 and 1636 speak of many conversions made in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Xinghua, but apart from some conversations held in Yongchun in March-April 1636 (VI.23–41), Aleni’s missionary activities in the south have left no trace in KDRC. From another Chinese source we know that he stayed in Quanzhou in the fall of 1635, and from there moved on to Zhangzhou. 1
