Author | Ripa, Matteo 馬國賢, 1682-1746Prandi, Fortunato |
Place | --- |
Publisher | Elibron Classics |
Collection | Ricci Institute [AEC] |
Edition | |
Language | English |
Type | Book |
Series | |
Shelf | Admin. Office Gallery |
Call Number | DS708.R56213 2005 |
Description | viii, 160 pages ; 21 cm. |
Note | 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 / [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. |
ISBN | 1402188803 ; 9781402188800 |