What Is the Story of Li Zabiao?

Li Zabiao was born in the far northwest of China up on the Silk Road. When he was 12, a Chinese priest came to visit their town and said, why don't you send your son to study to be a priest? He sent this 11 year old off to Naples to where he studied at a special college that the Catholic Church had set up to train Chinese for missionary work. George Leonard Staunton brought his child up as a kind of 18th century project poor child. His father thought that his child was going to be the first to really learn British person to really learn Chinese. And so when they got to China, it turned out people could understand him. So Li