Prof. Ignacio Ramos Riera (达奇), PhD from the Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Doc. phil.) in 2013, serves as an associate professor at the University of Jilin (China). His main contributions are books such as Jerónimo Nadal (1507-1580) und der „verschriftlichte” Ignatius. Die Konstruktion einer individuellen und kollektiven Identität (Brill, 2016); Chronicon natalis: Una lente para introducirse en el surgimiento de la espiritualidad ignaciana (Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 2019), as well as articles concerning the development of European Humanism and its reception in China in journals such as Hispania Sacra, International Sinology (国际汉 学), Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Biblische Notizen, La Civiltà Cattolica, Razón y Fe, etc. Since 2014, he has been teaching and researching in Taipei, Beijing, Madrid and Changchun, with a focus in analyzing and bridging cultural and linguistic traditions of the Iberian, German, Anglo-Saxon and Chinese world. The current article was partly prepared in the frame of the research project “Diego de Pantoja, mediador cultural. Pensamiento, ciencia, música y diplomacia en la misión de China a comienzos del siglo XVII” funded by the Universidad Pontificia Comillas as one of its “Proyectos Propios” for the academic year 2021-22 (cf. https://www.comillas.edu/noticias/17-comillas/2624-comillas-concede-ayudas-a-15- proyectos-de-investigacion-propios), ref. PP2021_14