Subject: Istituto universitario orientale (Naples)

Memoirs of Father Ripa during thirteen years' residence at the court of Peking in the service of the Emperor of China : with an account of the foundation of the college for the education of young Chinese at Naples
AuthorRipa, Matteo 馬國賢, 1682-1746Prandi, Fortunato
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PublisherElibron Classics
CollectionRicci Institute [AEC]
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LanguageEnglish
TypeBook
Series
ShelfAdmin. Office Gallery
Call NumberDS708.R56213 2005
Descriptionviii, 160 pages ; 21 cm.
NoteMemoirs of Father Ripa during thirteen years' residence at the court of Peking in the service of the Emperor of China : with an account of the foundation of the college for the education of young Chinese at Naples / [selected and translated from the Italian by Fortunato Prandi].
Translation and condensation of: Storia della fondazione della congregazione e del Collegio de' cinesi.
Reprint of the 1844 ed. published by John Murray, London.

Keywords: Cardinal de Tournon imprisonment ; Macao ; painting ; craftsmen ; Description of Beijing ; navigation ; Nanjiang huo ; Chinese medical practices ; Chinese customs and traditions ; Engravers and engraving ; the Great Wall, Jehol, the Emperor Kangxi ; food and delicacies, fireworks, womens feet, landscape gardening, wrestling and archery, beards ; Chinese College ; Russian embassy, Count Ismailof, missionaries ; death of the Emperor Kangxi ; Chinese students.

ISBN1402188803 ; 9781402188800