The well-field system in Shang and Chou / Hsu Chung-shu -- Some agricultural implements of the early Chinese / Hsu Chung-shu -- Feudal society of the Chou Dynasty / Chang Yin-lin -- THe investiture ceremony of Chou / Ch'i Ssu-ho -- The Chinese land system before the Ch'in Dynasty / Wu Ch'i-ch'ang -- Population and geography in the two Han Dynasties / Lao Kan -- Great Families of Eastern Han / Yang Lien-sheng -- Early development of manorial economy in Wei and Tsin / Ho Tzu-ch'uan -- Evolution of the status of "dependents" / Yang Chung-i -- The system of equal land allotments in medieval times / Wan Kuo-ting -- Lower castes in the T'ang Dynasty / Yang Chung-i -- Official salaries as revealed in T'ang poetry / Ch'en Yin-k'o -- The church-state conflict in the T'ang Dynasty / Chia Chung-yao -- Social relief during the Sung Dynasty / Hsu I-t'ang -- Periodic fairs in South China in the Sung Dynasty / Ch'uan Han-sheng -- Government Artisans of the Yuan Dynasty / Chu Ch'ing-yuan -- Local tax collectors in the Ming Dynasty / Liang Fang-chung -- The "ten-parts" tax system of Ming / Liang Fang-chung -- Price control and paper currency in Ming / Li Chien-nung -- The Ming system of merchant colonization / Wang Ch'ung-wu -- Frontier horse markets in the Ming Dynasty / Hou Jen-chih -- Manchu-Chinese social and economic conflicts in early Ch'ing / Ma Feng-ch'en -- A ships voyage from Luzon to China in the eighteenth century / Chao Ch'uan-ch'eng -- The land tax in the Yangtse Provinces before and after the Taiping rebellion / Hsia Nai.

Introduction: problems of method and of content / John K. Fairbank -- The intellectual history of China: preliminary reflections / Benjamin Schwartz -- The political function of astronomy and astronomers in Han China / Wolfram Eberhard -- The formation of Sui ideology, 581-604 / Arthur F. Wright -- An early Sung reformer: Fan Chung-yen / James T.C. Liu -- The Tung-lin movement of the late Ming period / Charles O. Hucker -- Chinese despotism and the Confucian ideal: a seventeenth-century view / W.T. de Bary -- Synarchy under the treaties / John K. Fairbank -- Chinese class structure and its ideology / Tʻung-tsu Chʻü -- Region, family, and individual in the Chinese examination system / E.A. Kracke, Jr. -- The functional relationship between Confucian thought and Chinese religion / C.K. Yang -- The concept of "pao" as a basis for social relations in China / Lien-sheng Yang -- The scholar's frustration: notes on a type of "fu" / Hellmut Wilhelm -- The amateur ideal in Ming and early Chʻing society: evidence from painting / Joseph R. Levenson.

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.

Source notes from several OCLC records: Authorship attributed in A.A. Barbier, Ouvrages anonymes, II, 1229 ; Actual place of publication from Bengesco ; First published: Paris [i.e. Geneva] in the same year, cf. Bengesco. Bengescu, G. Voltaire, no. 1859, note. ; Written by Voltaire. Cf. Bengesco, G. Voltaire, v. II, p. 317-318 ; "Probably a fictitious imprint. Compositorial practices (quire catchwords, arabic signature numerals, half plus one of each gathering signed) suggest that this edition may have been printed in the Netherlands or Germany."
Title vignette (putti with wreath, flowers & storm clouds); head-piece; tail-pieces.
Verso of t.p. (p. [4] at front) and final page are blank.

1. Son of Heaven: shamanic kingship -- 2. Son of Heaven: kingship as cosmic paradigm -- 3. The moral teacher as sage: philosophy appropriates the paradigm -- 4. The metaphysician as sage: philosophy again appropriates the paradigm -- 5. The paradigm enshrined: the authority of classics -- 6. The mystic as sage: religion appropriates the paradigm -- 7. The sage-king as messiah: religion again appropriates the paradigm -- 8. All under Heaven: political power and the periphery -- A glossary of Sino-Japanese names and terms.

"In this book, Julia Ching offers a magisterial survey of over four thousand years of Chinese civilisation through an examination of the relationship between kingship and mysticism. She investigates the sage-king myth and ideal, and analyses the various skills that have been required as qualifications of leadership. She argues that institutions of kingship were bound up with cultivation of trance states and communication with spirits. Over time, these associations were retained, though sidelined, as the sage-king myth became a model for the actual ruler, with a messianic appeal for the ruled. As a paradigm, it also became appropriated by private individuals who strove for wisdom without becoming kings. As the Confucian tradition interacted with the Taoist and the Buddhist, the religious character of spiritual and mystical cultivation became more pronounced. But the sage-king idea continued, promoting expectation of benevolent despotism rather than democratisation in Chinese civilisation."--Jacket.

Dig.pdf. local access [Ching-Mysticism and Kingship.pdf]
Physical copy Gleeson Library.

Contents: Xu 序 / Lu Yaodong 逯耀東 -- Daolun 導論 / Zha Shijie 查時傑 -- Guoshi kuoda mian yan de yi ge kanfa 國史擴大綿延的一個看法 / Yao Congwu 姚從吾 -- Zhongguo minzu de qiyuan yu gouzao 中國民族的起源與構造 / Zheng Dekun 鄭德坤 -- Zhongguo minzu yu wailai wenhua 中國民族與外來文化 / Fu Lecheng 傳樂成 -- Zhongguo chuantong zhengzhi 中國傳統政治 / Qian Mu 錢穆 -- Zhongguo kaoshi zhidu wenhua shehui fengsu de guanxi 中國考試制度與政治文化社會風俗的關係 / Deng Siyu 鄧嗣禹 -- Cong huobi zhidu kan Zhongguo jingji de fazhan 從貨幣制度看中國經濟的發展 / Quan Hansheng 全漢昇 -- Zhongguo shehui daodi shi shenme shehui 中國社會到底是什麼社會 / Tao Xisheng 陶希聖 -- Zhongguo de chuantong shehui 中國的傳統社會 / Jin Yaoji 金耀基 -- Zhongguo de jiazu 中國的家族 / Lei Haizong 雷海宗 -- Zhongguo wenhua zhong zhi meijie renwu 中國文化中之媒介人物 / Yang Liansheng 楊聯陞 -- Bianjiang minzu zai Zhongguo lishi shang de zhongyaoxing 邊疆民族在中國歷史上的重要性 / Tao Jinsheng 陶晉生 -- Zhongguo xin shiqi shidai wenhua de yiban xiangmao 中國新石器時代文化的一般相貎 / Zhang Guangzhi 張光直.

Reprint of the ed. with postscript dated 1973.