by Ivo Kruchten | Aug 11, 2016 | two girls in China
One of the greatest evidence of the presence of the missionaries in China is their cemetery; the Zhalan cemetery. The cemetery is located in what is now the Communist Party School and it took a while to convince the guards to let us in to visit it. Here, 53 Jesuits...
by Ivo Kruchten | Aug 11, 2016 | two girls in China
Today we went to visit the Imperial City, in the center of Beijing. The Imperial City, or Forbidden City, used to be the residence of the Emperors and until the Republic was forbidden for the public. Kircher in the China Illustrata describes the center of Beijing with...
by Ivo Kruchten | Aug 10, 2016 | two girls in China
Today we conquered the Great Wall of China! Well, at least one small section of it. Mutianyu is one of the most beautiful, large and popular sections of the Great Wall stretching about 70km. The wall was built in the mid-6th century and has been re-built since. One of...
by Ivo Kruchten | Aug 9, 2016 | two girls in China
Today was packed full of exploring the city and attempting to find the remnants of the Jesuits who came here centuries ago. Beijing is such a dense and busy city that finding anything is a challenge, especially when those places are the lesser visited tourist...
by Ivo Kruchten | Aug 6, 2016 | two girls in China
We got here as the sun set since it took us a whole day to reach St. Joseph’s Church, known more commonly as Wangfujing Church or Dongtang, one of the few proofs of the Jesuits’s presence in the capital city! Hidden by the skyscrapers, the huge modern...
