The Acta Pekinensia, or, Historical records of the Maillard de Tournon legation : first transcribed edition and English annotated translation / Kilian Stumpf SJ ; Paul Rule, Claudia von Collani, editors.
Print volumes contain the annotated English translation. Digital images of the original manuscript and transcriptions of its Latin text are available on the accompanying CD-ROM.

"Draft translators of the original Latin manuscript are for vol. I: Ian Falconer, Joseph Holland, both deceased, and Paul Rule."--Volume 1, title page verso.

Publication of the Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu and Macau Ricci Institute.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

*CD contains an index of abbreviations, the Acta Pekinensia [ARSI Jap-Sin 138] manuscript itself in 401 p. [i.e. 201 .jpg frames], and a 428 page pdf of the typescript of the Latin manuscript.
Volume I. December 1705-August 1706.

Local access dig.pdf. [Acta Pekinensia V.1.pdf]

Contents:
Introduction: Christianity and cultures: Japan & China in comparison, 1543-1644 / M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.J.
I. Christian missionaries and their encounter with Japan & China: 1. The Jesuit encounter with Buddhism in Ming China / Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia. 2. From Dainichi to Deus. The early missionaries’ discovery and understanding of Buddhism / Kishino Hisashi. Responses & Reflections / Nicolas Standaert, S.J.
II. The challenges of religious translation: creating a native East Asian Christian literature. 3. The archaeology of dreams: the Shengmengge, its translation and its transformation / Li Sher-shiueh. 4. The Japanese translations of the Jesuit mission press / William Farge, S.J. Responses & reflections / Thierry Meynard, S.J.
III. Living the new faith I: Christian liturgy & rituals: 5. The adaptation of the Christian liturgy & sacraments to Japanese culture during the Christian era in Japan / Ignatia Kataoka Rumiko. 6. A Solution to the Rites Controversy proposed by Antonio Rubino, S.J. / Asami Masakazu. Responses & reflections / Eugenio Menegon.
IV. Japanese and Chinese Christians: native faith communities & organizations: 7. Communities, Christendom, and the unified regime in early modern Japan / Kawamura Shinzō, S.J. 8. Trade, literati, and mission: the Catholic social network in late Ming southern Fujian / Zhang Xianqing. Responses & reflections / Gail King.
V. Living the new faith II: Christian art & its various expressions: 9. Artistic exchanges between Macau and Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Mo Xiaoye. 10. The iconography of the Virgin Mary in Japan & its transformation: Chinese Buddhist sculpture & Maria Kannon / Wakakuwa Midori. Responses & reflections / Thomas M. Lucas, S.J.
VI. The politics of the encounter: Japanese and Christian attitudes towards Christianity & Christians: 11. The Edo Shogunate’s view of Christianity in the seventeenth century / Yamamoto Hirofumi. 12. Europaeology? On the difficulty of assembling a knowledge of Europe in China / Timothy Brook. Responses & reflections / Qi Yinping.
VII. Macau at the crossroads of Europe and East Asia: 13. The Japanese students in the College of Macau (1594-1606) / João Paulo Oliveira e Costa. Responses & reflections / Patrick Provost-Smith.
Epilogue: Christianity and cultures: Japan & China in comparison, 1543-1644. Reflections on a significant theme / John W. Witek, S.J.

Jesuits in the eastern world as ‘forerunners of globalization’ / Carlota Miranda Urbano -- Alessandro Valignano: man, missionary, and writer / M. Antoni J. Üçerler 余安道 -- With a view towards Japan: Alessandro Valignano and the opening of the college in Macau / John Witek 魏若望 (1933-2010) -- The Japanese in the College of Macau (1595-1614) / João Paulo Oliveira e Costa -- Alessandro Valignano 范禮安 Fan Li-an (1539-1606): strategist of the Jesuit mission in China / Edward J. Malatesta 馬愛德 (1932-1998) -- Chronology of Alessandro Valignano / Marisa Di Russo.