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Biography of Xu Guangqi
Name: Xu Guangqi
Birth Date: 1562
Death Date: November 8, 1633
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: Chinese
Gender: Male
Occupations: scholar, politician
Xu Guangqi
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 Catholic Religion in China" in the 17th century.Xu Guangqi was born in Shanghai in 1562. At the age of 19, he passed the first stage of the Chinese service examination system, receiving the shengyuan (bachelor) degree. He did not, however, pass the second stage juren (master) degree examination until 1597, and even at that late date his success was something of a miracle. When the chief examiner Chiao Hung (1541-1620), concerned that he could not find an outstanding candidate for the "Number One Graduate" position, began to review some of the rejected exam papers, he was surprised to find the excellent essays of Xu Guangqi. Quickly elevated from the "failed grade" to the "Number …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…of the 11th generation was Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Song Meiling). Further Reading Kuang-ch'i, Hsü (Collected Writings of Xu Guangqi). Edited by Wang Chung-min. Shanghai: Chung-hua Book Co., 1963. "Kuang-ch'i, Hsü" in A. H. Hummel, ed., Emminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period.Library of Congress, 1943-44, pp. 316-19.Kuang-ch'i nien-p'u, Hsü (Chronological Biography of Xu Guangqi). Edited by Liang Chia-mien. Shanghai: Classics Publishing Co., 1981.Chen, Min-sun. "Hsü Kuang-ch'i (1562-1633) and His Image of the West," in Cyriac K. Pullapilly and Edwin J. Van Kley, eds. Asia and the West. Notre Dame, Indiana: Cross Cultural Publications, 1986.Dunne, George H. S. J. Generation of Giants. University of Notre Dame Press, 1962.Trigault, Nicolas. China in the Sixteenth Century: The Journals of Matthew Ricci, 1583-1610. Translated by Louis J. Gallagher, S. J. Random House, 1953.Ronan, Charles E., S. J. Oh, and Bonnie B. C. Oh, eds. East Meets West: the Jesuits in China, 1582-1773. Loyola University Press, 1988.
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