Nanchang area was one of the areas where Western culture was spread earlier and better in Late-Ming and Early-Qing dynasty,which relied on the efforts of
Matteo Ricci,
Zhang Huang and
Xiong Ming-yu.During the three years in Nanchang,Matte Ricci was the earliest to
disseminate the Western culture into Nanchang,so the people in Nanchang had a wide vision and the Western learning began to disseminate in Nanchang area and some other areas.Among people in Nanchang,ZHANG Huang was the first man who had a direct contact with and was influenced by Matteo and was receptive to and disseminate Western learning.He propagated the Western geography introduced by Matteo in the bookCompilation of Books.While XIONG Ming-yu,influenced by other missionaries and literati and officialdom who loved Western learning in other provinces,became the initiator of Western learning and had an impact on the dissemination of Western learning in Nanchang area.His representative work,
Gezhi Draft,introduced the Western Gezhi Science.
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