April 27-29, the Macau Ricci Institute held a three-day International Symposium dedicated to Polish Jesuit Missionaries in Chinese History.  The title of the Symposium was: “Introduction of Western Learning and Cultural Consciousness.”  There were 20 speakers from both Poland and Taiwan, as well as many participating scholars from from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.  Andrzej Rudomina (1595-1632) and Jan Mikolaj Smogulecki (1610-1656) were two of the outstanding Polish missionaries to China who were mentioned during theSymposium.