News of hopes that "the first Catholic in Shanghai" and "Catholic Chinese imperial official" "may also be proclaimed a saint along with Father Matteo Ricci" — Hopes for Ricci’s helper to become a saint too.
The duo "collaborated closely in Beijing to translate Western texts on mathematics, hydraulics, astronomy, trigonometry and geography into Chinese," and "also translated Confucian classics into Latin so as to introduce the dominant Chinese philosophy to Europe."
Fonte: 11 maggio 2010