Notes on the Jesuits in China = Об Езуитах в Китае / Hieromonk Feodosii Smorzhevskii = Иеромонах Феодосий Сморжевский ; translated and edited by Gregory Afinogenov.
Translated text facing pages in Cyrillic and English.
Includes bibliography (p.105-107) and index.

"The legendary Jesuit mission in China has been the subject of controversy for centuries. In the 1740s, the Russian hieromonk Feodosii Smorzhevskii encountered it firsthand. Published in English for the first time, this unique text marks the encounter between Russian Orthodox and Catholic missionaries in Beijing as each tried to navigate the labyrinthine world of the Qing imperial court. By turns critical and sympathetic, skeptical and conspiratorial, Smorzhevskii’s account is one of the only reports by an outside observer on the daily life and political tensions surrounding the eighteenth-century China Jesuit missionary enterprise."--p.[4] of cover.

Local access dig.pdf. [Afinogenov-Notes on Jesuits in China.pdf] (camera scan, searchable in Russian/English)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Note on Calendar and Transliteration -- Introduction.

I. Muscovite Statecraft and Hybrid Knowledge
1. Muscovy on the Knowledge Frontier
2. Seeing China through Russian Eyes
II. Bureaucrats and their Secrets
3. Secret Missions, Troublesome Missionaries
5. The Caravan as a Knowledge Bureaucracy
6. The Commerce of Long-Distance Letters
III. Remaking Knowledge on the Frontier
7. Frontier Intelligence and the Struggle for Inner Asia
8. Spies and Subversion in Eastern Siberia
IV. Intelligence and Sinology in Search of World Power
9. Imperial Encounters in the North Pacific
10. Making Russian Sinology in the Age of Napoleon
11. Conspiracy and Conquest on the Amur
Conclusion

Appendix: Reign Dates -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Gregory Afinogenov explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. He argues that the approaches the empire took are closely related to its leaders' perception of Russia's place in the world. Espionage gave way to public-facing, academic study, as Russia sought to outdo Britain in a global contest for imperial prestige.

Local access dig. pdf. [Afinogenov-Spies and Scholars.pdf]