Summary: The Question Of Hu

Decent Essays
Megan Davies
Professor Welsh
World History Since 1500
2/21/2017
The Question of Hu
In the book question of Hu, I learned that communication between two cultures and gets to experience many differences. In the book, Father Fouquet is called from China back to France. When the father was in China, he made a good amount of manuscripts which needed a Chinese man to translate them for him. He then crossed paths with a character called Hu, which is a gatekeeper at a church and he was converted to Christianity. Hu wanted to meet the Pope but sadly didn't have a way of traveling to the west, so when Father Foucquet and Hu run into each other it’s pretty ironic. Foucquet then had Hu to be his travel partner, but he definitely was not expecting to bring

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