D.E. Mungello, ed.
Contents of no.3: (cover) title page of the 1651 edition of Chang Chü-cheng’s Ssu-shu chih-chieh 四書直解 (Colloquial Commentary on the Four Books). (back) t.p. of the first European translation of the Four Books, Confucius Sinarum philosophus (Paris, 1687). -- Knud Lundbaek: Chief Grand Secretary Chang Chü-cheng & the early China Jesuits. -- David E. Mungello: The Jesuits’ use of Chang Chü-cheng’s commentary in their translation of the Confucian Four Books (1687). -- Ann Nottingham Kelsall: Source materials for China Mission studies (1550-1800), Report #3, The Woodstock Theological Center Library.
Essays identify commentator Cham Colao as Zhang Juzheng 張居正 (1525-1582)

D.E. Mungello, editor.
Cover title also in Chinese: Zhongguo Tianzhujiao shi yanjiu [Zhong-Xi wenhua jiechu 中國天主教史研究 [中西文化接觸 ]
Cover: page from the popular Chinese encyclopedia Wan Bao Quan Shu, Kircher’s Vorlage in the Biblioteca Vaticana. H. Walravens: Ein neues Hilfsmittel beim Studium der christlichen chinesischen Literatur. John W. Witek, S.J.: East meets West: the Jesuits in China, 1582-1773, Conference at Loyola University, Chicago. Knud Lundbaek: Imaginary ancient Chinese characters. Theodore Nicholas Foss: Report on the Covegno Internazionale di Studi Ricciani nel IV Centenario dell’Arrivo in Cina di Matteo Ricci, S.J. Donald L. Baker: A note on Jesuit works in Chinese which circulated in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century Korea. David E. Mungello: Library Report 5: Sources for China Mission Studies (1550-1800) preserved in the Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

D.E. Mungello, editor.
Cover title also in Chinese: Zhongguo Tianzhujiaoshi yanjiu [Zhong-Xi wenhua jiaoliu 中國天主教史研究 [中西文化交流]
Cover: a panoramic drawing of Macao, from the Aomen jilüe, juan 1 (1800 ed.). -- Knud Lundbaek: Matteo Ricci in the Aomen jilüe 澳門記略. -- Lin Jinshui 林金水 : Rujiao bushi zongjiao: shilun Li Madou dui Rujiao de kanfa 儒教不是宗教: 試論利瑪竇對儒教的看法 (Is Confucianism a religion? An attempt to present the viewpoint of Matteo Ricci toward Confucianism). -- Nicolas Standaert: Note on the spread of Jesuit writings in late Ming and early Qing China. --News.

馬若瑟(1666 - 1736)法國著名的漢學家, 耶穌會傳教士. 馬若瑟從一開始學習漢文時起, 其目的就不只是為了傳教, 而且想要用漢文來著述, 並且從漢文經籍中尋找對信奉基督教的支持和依據, 為此, 那些把中國經典文獻看成禮儀事物代表的傳教士們, 就對馬若瑟感到不滿和懷疑. 馬若瑟的有生之年大多用於研究中國文學, 其研究對像從保存下來的早期文獻一直到宋朝的哲學家, 文士和詩人. 他在這些研究中所獲得的對中國文學的深刻認識, 使他在寫作《中國語言志略》(Notitia Linguae Sinicae)時獲益匪淺.

D.E. Mungello, SWCR Editor.
Issues 1-10 entitled: China Mission Studies (1550-1800) Bulletin.
Cover title also in Chinese: Zhong-Xi wenhua jiaoliu zazhi 中國天主教史研究雜誌 [Zhongguo Tianzhujiaoshi yanjiu 中國天主教史研究].

Cover: Magnified section of the etching “The Raising of the Siege at the Black River (1758)” which is reproduced in full on pages 28-29. The etching is made from a drawing by the Jesuit painter G. Castiglione. (See Hao Zhenhua article).
K. Lundbaek: Liu Ning 劉凝 (Er Zhi [Erzhi 二至]), a Chinese Christian author of the 17th-18th century. -- N. Standaert: The Jesuit presence in China (1580-1773): a statistical approach. -- Hao Zhenhua 郝鎮華: Lang Shining Zhongguo Xiyuzhantu de shishi ji yiyi 郎世寧中國西域戰圖的史實及意義 (The Historical Circumstances and Significance of Castiglione’s War Paintings of the Qianlong emperor’s Campaign against the Dzungars in the Northwestern Border Region). -- L. Pfister: Some new dimensions in the study of the works of James Legge (1815-1897) - Part II. -- In memoriam: Giorgio Melis. -- New Publications: Coming Out of the Middle Ages, by Zhu Weizheng. Reviewer: Thomas H.. Lee. -- Philippe Couplet, S.J. (1623-1693): the Man Who Brougy China to Europe, ed. Jerome Heyndrickx. Reviewer: Min-sin Chen. Leibniz Korrespondiert mit China: der Briefwechsel des Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz mit Chinamissionaren, 1689-1714), ed. Rita Widmaier. Only the Beginning: the Passionsists in China, 1921-1931, by Caspar Caulfield. -- Rawlinson, the Recorder, and China’s Revolution, by John Lang Rawlinson. Reviewer: D.E. Mungello.
Dates uncertain for Liu Ning: Liu Ning 劉凝, ca. 1658-1738 (Lundbaek); 17th cent. (LC); ca. 1625-ca. 1715 (Standaert, Handbook). [suigong 歲貢, i.e. 貢生 1677]

Cover: a portrait of the Italian Jesuit missionary to China, Fr. G. Alenis [Aleni] (1582[sic]-1649), reproduced from his biography, Xihai Ai xiansheng xingshu (ca. 1649) by Li Sixuan. -- A. Dudink: The Rediscovery of a Seventeenth-Century Collection of Chinese Christian Texts: the Manuscript Tianxue jijie. -- E. Menegon: A Different Country, the Same Heaven: a Preliminary Biography of Giulio Alenis, S.J. (1542-1649). -- K. Lundbaek: Pierre Martial Cibot (1727-1780): the Last China Figurist. -- Necrologies: Antonio Sisto Rosso (1904-1990) -- Fr. Fortunato Margiotti, O.F.M. (1913-1990) -- Fr. Caspar Caulfield, C.P. (1908 or 9-1993). -- Reviews of New Publications: Buddhistische Kritik am Christentum im China des 17. Jahrhunderts, by Iso Kern. --Moral Enlightenment: Leibniz and Wolff on China, by Julia China & Willard G. Oxtoby. -- Als Fremde in China: das Reich der Mitte im Spiegel Frühneuzeitlicher Europäischer Reiseberichte, by Walter Demel. -- [Bibliographical note] “Some Publications on Late Ming - Early Qing Cultural Exchange Between East and West by Mainland China Authors”, by Nicolas Standaert. --Symposium on the Significance of the Chinese Rites Controversy in Sino-Western History (report).