In the mid-licher all published uitsts Michael Boym, Marino Martini, and Athanasius Kircher all published outstanding works on China that recorded significant knowledge on Chinese food. Both having been to China, Boym illustrated abundant Chinese foods with pictures in his books Flora Sinensis and Atlas Sinarum Imperii, whereas Martini introduced Chinese food from the perspective of cultural geography in Novus Atlas Sinensis. Remarkably, although Kircher was a local European scholar who never travelled to China, his book Chinese Illustration, which cited many examples from Boym and Martini, was translated into various European languages and reprinted many times. The books by these Jesuits show how westerners understood and absorbed Chinese food knowledge in unique ways, and they present the historical evolution of westerners' knowledge of Chinese food.