Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) was a Chinese scholar-official, who rose to one of the highest government positions in the Ming dynasty, pioneered in the introduction of Western science and technology into China, and became one of the "Three Pillars of the...

(1562–1633), Chinese official and scholar. Born in Shanghai, China, in 1562, Xu Guangqi was baptized by Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci in 1603 and took the name Paul. He spent the next three years collaborating with Ricci in translating Western...

Xu Guangqi (traditional Chinese: 徐光啟; simplified Chinese: 徐光启; pinyin: Xú Guāngqǐ; Wade-Giles: Hsu Kuang-ch'i, 1562–1633), courtesy name Zixian (子先), was a Chinese bureaucrat, agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician of...

Xu Wenli, who was arrested last week, knows what awaits him in the Chinese gulag. This isn't his first time. Xu, now 55, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for advocating democracy back in 1979. He spent his first three years in...

IN AUGUST 2005 word began to spread through the Chinese art community that the Shanghai-bused artist Xu Zhen had scaled Mount Everest and, what's more, managed (with a band of expert climbers) to saw off the top 1.86 meters of the mountain's peak. A...