China tries to bury Jesuit past - http://www.gluckman.com/Graves.html In the Middle Kingdom, history is all mixed up because of so many periodic revisions, yet a serene Jesuit cemetery in the center of the city proves that Beijing cannot bury its past
US Jesuit Conference - Who are the Jesuits - http://www.jesuit.org/WhoAreJesuits/default.aspx Sampling of some items relating to the history of the Jesuits or the Jesuits in history.
Georgetown Special Collections: The Society of Jesus - http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/sj.htm Guide to archives regarding the Society of Jesus - some 12,000 volumes, many written by Jesuits or touching on aspects of Jesuit order.
What Determined the Content of Missionary Reports? - http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/french_colonial_history/v003/3.1abe.html Historiography. Article examines the Jesuit Relations, and compares them to reports from early Iberian Jesuit missionaries to Japan, to test historians' hypotheses on the influences which shaped the missionaries' reports.
"A Passage to China": A French Jesuit's Perceptions of Siberia in the 1680s - http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/french_colonial_history/v003/3.1love.html Although the Russian government blocked his attempt to pass through Siberia, Père Philippe Avril's five-year quest for a land passage from Europe to Beijing contributed to European knowledge of Asian geography.
Jesuits and the Sciences - http://libraries.luc.edu/about/jesuits/ History of the order's scientific work, including brief biographies and photographs of artifacts and documents.
Czech Jesuits During the Communist Oppression - http://www.svobodat.com/sj/ First hand account of the history of the Czech Jesuit order under the Communist oppression as published in the book "On the Way to Jesus!" by former SJ Provincial Jan Pavlik.
The Jesuits in China - http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/i-rome_to_china/Jesuits_in_China.html Historical information and documents from early work of the Jesuit order in China.
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