Paul Rule , after a doctoral thesis at the Australian National University on the Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism, was Senior Lecturer in History and Religious Studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He is a past President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion and has worked closely with the Macau Ricci Institute and the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College (formerly at the University of San Francisco) and published on the Jesuit missions in China, with a focus on the Chinese Rites Controversy. Claudia von Collani , Dr. theol., is Professor at the Universität of Würzburg, she is missiologist and specialist in early modern East Asian mission history. She has written extensively on the Chinese Rites Controversy, Figurism, and the exchange of knowledge between China and Europe. Together with Paul Rule she already edited the former three volumes of the Acta Pekinensia .