In the book The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, author Jonathan Spence talks about the Italian preacher Matteo Ricci who spent almost his entire life in China. Spence tries to describe a person who was determined and faced many difficulties in preaching but never lost faith in establishing Christian faith among the Chinese using the memory palace. He divided the book into nine chapters. Despite the memory palace preface and summary, each chapter contains an image or image that is used for the introduction of each chapter. In this way, Spence uses these images and photographs to help the reader build their own memory palace of this book which also illustrates well the memory method used by Matteo Ricci: the memory palace. According to Brook (p.831), a memory palace is "a mnemonic method popular among 16th-century Jesuits for retaining it in memory." In the book, Matteo Ricci, a pious Christian, tried to impress the Chinese by using his memory skills. He also hoped that they might become interested in his culture and thus become interested in God (p. 140). In that period of strong political and financial situation and religious ferment, it was really difficult for Ricci and the other preachers to preach in China. To achieve the goal that made people in China believe in God, they went through many difficulties. But also due to these difficulties, Ricci's original dream that it was easy to preach in another country was shattered. Ricci and others then tried to find another accessible and more realistic way to achieve their goals. One way to get closer to their goals was to translate the thoughts and books from European to Chinese and give people access to the understanding of knowledge...... middle of paper... the conscious intentionality of work and the exploitation by Ricci's part of his arguments for Christian purposes." (Brook, p.832) This meant that, since Ricci had his own Christian purpose of telling the story in this way, he was not respectful of Ricci's original intention when Spence told the facts to the reader. Despite these small shortcomings, Spence did a really good job in portraying the historical character Ricci He provided the background and early life of Ricci to explain to us why he was determined to preach out was that he illustrated every effort that Ricci had made to introduce the Western memory method and the Christian religion to the Chinese people, such as translation and the construction of the memory palace. Just as Brook said, "Spence is able to reveal to us a somewhat capricious man, deeply sensitive to his difficulties, his failures." (Brook, p..833)