| Date | 2005 |
| Publish_location | --- |
| Publisher | Elibron Classics |
| Collection | Ricci Institute [AEC] |
| Language | English |
| Record_type | Book |
| Shelf | Stacks [AEC] |
| Call Number | DS708.R56213 2005 |
| Description | viii, 160 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Note | Memoirs of Father Ripa during thirteen years' residence at the court of Peking in the service of the Emperor of China : with an account of the foundation of the college for the education of young Chinese at Naples / [selected and translated from the Italian by Fortunato Prandi]. Keywords: Cardinal de Tournon imprisonment ; Macao ; painting ; craftsmen ; Description of Beijing ; navigation ; Nanjiang huo ; Chinese medical practices ; Chinese customs and traditions ; Engravers and engraving ; the Great Wall, Jehol, the Emperor Kangxi ; food and delicacies, fireworks, womens feet, landscape gardening, wrestling and archery, beards ; Chinese College ; Russian embassy, Count Ismailof, missionaries ; death of the Emperor Kangxi ; Chinese students. |
| Subject | China--Description and travel--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911--Sources Missions--China--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911--Personal narratives China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911--Sources China--Court and courtiers--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911 Collegio dei Cinesi [Collegium Sinicum] (Naples, Italy) Ripa, Matteo 馬國賢, 1682-1746--Diaries Istituto universitario orientale (Naples) |
| ISBN | 1402188803 ; 9781402188800 |
