Topics: Duty and subordination, clan relationships and harmony, keeping the peace, farming and mulberry culture, thrift and economy, schools and academies, heretical sects, laws and penalties, courteousness, abiding in ones vocation, education of the young, prevention of false accusations, sheltering deserters, payment of taxes, wards and tithings, making up quarrels.

".... originally sixteen maxims of the Emperor Kang-hsi, each containing words issued as a Hortatory Edict in 1670. In 1724 Yong-cheng republished the Edict in an enlarged form. Wang-iu-puh...rendered this Exposition into colloquial..."--p. iii.

Includes index.

Topics: Duty and subordination, clan relationships and harmony, keeping the peace, farming and mulberry culture, thrift and economy, schools and academies, heretical sects, laws and penalties, courteousness, abiding in one's vocation, education of the young, prevention of false accusations, sheltering deserters, payment of taxes, wards and tithings, making up quarrels.

"Yongzheng Atlas (99 sheets, 251 p. index) reproduced from the original work of 1728 (Library of the Chinese Academy of Science); expansion and updating of the earlier Kangxi Atlas. Map composed of 99 sheets divided into ten equal horizontal rows, hence the name Yongzheng [Period] in Ten Rows 十排圖."

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Theodore N. Foss, “A Western Interpretation of China: Jesuit Cartography” in East Meets West (1988), pp. 109-251.
Endymion Wilkinson, Chinese history, a manual (2000), p. 148.
Joseph Needham, Science & civilisation in China (1954), v. 3, pp. 583-586.
N. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China (2001), p. 700, 759-763.
J.B. Harley and David Woodward. The history of cartography (1987), v. 2.2
Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database)