Ricci Library

Subject: China--Politics and government--18th century

Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise

Author	Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743
Place	La Haye
Publisher	H. Scheurleer
Collection	Rouleau Archives
Edition
Language	French
Type	Book, Digital Book (PDF)
Series
Shelf	Digital Archives, Rare Book Cabinet
Call Number	DS708.D85 1736
Description	4 v. : ill., plates, maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Note	Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise : enrichie des cartes générales et particulieres de ces pays, de la carte générale et des cartes particulieres du Thibet, & de la Corée; & ornée d'un grand nombre de figures & de vignettes gravées en tailledouce / Par le P.J.B. Du Halde ... Avec un avertissement préliminaire, oú l'on rend compte des principales améliorations qui ont été faites dans cette nouv. éd. The maps to accompany this work are to be found in J.B.B. d'Anville's Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet. La Haye, 1737. cf. Henri Cordier, Dict. bibl. des ouvrages relatifs à l'Empire chinois, 1881, t. ℓ. p. 31. The Ricci Institute's copy of this important text is from the Bibliotheca Major Zi-Ka-Wei in Fr. F. Rouleau's collection. There are several online venues, studies and researches on this title. See: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database). See also: ECHO. See also: Phenix. Local access dig.pdf. [Duhalde1-4.pdf] Online editions: Internet Archive. Online: Gallica. Online: Google Books t.1-3. Online: Google Books t.4.
LCCN	04-1237

Of body & brush : Grand sacrifice as text/performance in eighteenth-century China

Author	Zito, Angela
Place	Chicago
Publisher	University of Chicago Press
Collection	Ricci Institute Library [ASCC]
Edition
Language	English
Type	Book
Series
Shelf	Stacks [ASCC]
Call Number	DS754.17.Z58 1997
Description	xviii, 311 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.
Note	Of body & brush : Grand sacrifice as text/performance in eighteenth-century China / Angela Zito. Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-290) and index. Prologue: Clothing, Carrying, and Codifying -- pt. 1. Ruling Boundaries. 1. Signifying Emperorship: Of Portraits and Princes. 2. Method, Monarchy, and Ritual -- pt. 2. Text: Editing the Ritual Corpus. 3. Classifying Li: Time and Agency. 4. Writing the Ritualist Metaphysics: Self and World -- pt. 3. Performance: The Ritualizing Body Inscribes. 5. Sacrificial Spaces: Contextualizing the City. 6. Cosmic Preparation: Orders of Knowledge. 7. Filial Ceremony: Centering. 8. The Politics of Boundary: Inscription and Incorporation.
ISBN	0226987299 ; 9780226987293
LCCN	97012362

Soulstealers : the Chinese sorcery scare of 1768

Author	Kuhn, Philip A.
Place	Cambridge, MA
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Collection	Ricci Institute Library
Edition
Language	English
Type	Book
Series
Shelf	Director's Office
Call Number	JQ1508.K84 1990
Description	xi, 299 p., [2] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note	Soulstealers : the Chinese sorcery scare of 1768 / Philip A. Kuhn. Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-278) and index. Tales of the China clipper -- The properous age -- Threats seen and unseen -- The crime defined -- The roots of sorcery fear -- The campaign in the provinces -- On the trail of the master-sorcerers -- The end of the trail -- Political crime and bureaucratic monarchy -- Theme and variations.
ISBN	9780674821521
LCCN	90032807