Abstract
The Chinese agricultural society based on natural economy was a closed, conservative, and autocratic system that had deliberately cut China off from the outside world, so that China was ignorant of the outside world for a long time; at the same time, the world also knew little about China. It was not until the sixteenth century that a group of Western missionaries represented by Matteo Ricci came to China. Apart from preaching, these missionaries had spread Western science and technology as well as the knowledge of humanities through translated books and writings. From then on, for the first time, the intellectual circles of China began to have a glimpse of the Western world.
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Zhang, J. (2020). The Rise of the Ideological Trend of Reforming the Political System and the Law Before and After the Opium War. In: The History of Chinese Legal Civilization. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1032-3_2
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