In the book Matteo Ricci's Memory Palace, author Jonathan Spence talks about the Italian preacher Matteo Ricci who spent almost his entire life in China. Spence attempts to portray a person who was determined and experienced many difficulties in preaching, but never lost faith in establishing the Christian faith among the Chinese people using the memory palace. He divided the book into nine chapters. Despite the preface and summary of the memory palace, each chapter contains a picture or image that is used for the introduction of each chapter. In this way, Spence uses these images and images to help the reader build their own memory palace from this book which also illustrates well the method of memory used by Matteo Ricci – the memory palace. According to Brook (p. 831), a memory palace is "a mnemonic method popular with 16th-century Jesuits for preserving memory." In the book, Matteo Ricci, a devout Christian, tried to impress the Chinese by using his memory skills. He also hoped that they might become interested in his culture and therefore in God (p. 140). At that time, the political and financial situation was fierce, and religious fermentation made it very difficult for Ricci and other preachers to preach in China. In order to achieve the goal of making Chinese people believe in God, they have gone through many difficulties. But also because of these difficulties, they broke into pieces the original dream of Ricci, which was easy to preach in another country. So Ricci and others tried to find another accessible and more realistic way to achieve their goals. One way to approach their goals was to translate European thoughts and books into Chinese and allow people to access the understanding of knowledge...... middle of paper ... the conscious intentionality of work and Ricci's exploitation of his subject for Christian purposes. (Brook, p.832) This meant that because Ricci had his own Christian purpose for telling the story in this way, it was not respectful of Ricci's original intention when Spence related the facts to the reader. Despite these small shortcomings, Spence did a very good job. work in the representation of the historical character Ricci. He described Ricci's background and beginnings to tell us why he was determined to preach outside. The most important part was that it illustrated all the efforts made by Ricci to introduce the Western memory method and Christian religion to the Chinese people, such as the translation and construction of the Memory Palace. As Brook says: “Spence is able to reveal to us a man who is somewhat capricious and extremely sensitive to his difficulties, to his failures. » (Brook, p...833)