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.

The interweaving of rituals : funerals in the cultural exchange between China and Europe / Nicolas Standaert.
"A China program book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-314) and index.
Chinese and European funerals -- Missionaries' knowledge of Chinese funerals -- The gradual embedding of Christian funeral rituals in China -- Funerals as public manifestation -- Funerals as community practice -- Christian versus superstitious rituals -- Imperial sponsorship of Jesuit funerals -- Conclusion: The metaphor of textile weaving.

"The death of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci in China in 1610 was the occasion for demonstrations of European rituals appropriate for a Catholic priest and also of Chinese rituals appropriate to the country hosting the Jesuit community. Rather than burying Ricci immediately in a plain coffin near the church, according to their European practice, the Jesuits followed Chinese custom and kept Ricci's body for nearly a year in an air-tight Chinese-style coffin and asked the emperor for burial ground outside the city walls. Moreover, at Ricci's funeral itself, on their own initiative the Chinese performed their funerary rituals, thus starting a long and complex cultural dialogue in which they took the lead during the next century.
The Interweaving of Rituals explores the role of ritual - specifically rites related to death and funerals - in cross-cultural exchange, demonstrating a gradual interweaving of Chinese and European ritual practices at all levels of interaction in seventeenth-century China. This includes the interplay of traditional and new rituals by a Christian community of commoners, the grafting of Christian funerals onto established Chinese practices, and the sponsorship of funeral processions for Jesuit officials by the emperor. Through careful observation of the details of funerary practice, Nicolas Standaert illustrates the mechanics of two-way cultural interaction. His thoughtful analysis of the ritual exchange between two very different cultural traditions is especially relevant in today's world of global ethnic and religious tension. His insights will be of interest to a broad range of scholars, from historians to anthropologists to theologians."--Publisher.
Local access dig.pdf. [Standaert-Interweaving of Rituals.pdf]

"作者共討論了三十個專題的問題 : Bazi 八字, Jiri 吉日, Jie Xing 接星, fengshui 風水, xiangmian 相面, suanming 算命, chouqian 抽簽, shaozhi 燒紙, duoyang 躲殃, ji Zaoshen 祭灶神, da cutan 打醋炭, Dao Huangshen 禱蝗神, ji Ma Wang 祭馬王, ji huhun 祭弧魂, po diyu 破地獄, diaoshen 調神, jiu sao 酒 掃, xian yang 獻羊, guan sha 關煞, xiu Dao cheng Fo 修道成佛, huodan 活丹, die hun 跌魂, duosi ying 剁死嬰, Fo Dao chizhai 佛道持齋, quqin 娶親, zisha 自殺, jian yang jian ming 賤養賤名, baoquan ruzi 保全孺子, xi dao yu 析禱雨, chaoshan baitai 朝山拜台."

Keywords: Fortune-telling, birthdays, auspicious dates, fengshui (geomancy), physiognomy, avoiding disasters, Kitchen God worship, jealousy, suicide. etc.
Cover illustration: Bibliothèque nationale de France. Courant 7147.
明末清初耶穌會思想文獻匯編 = An expository collection of the Christian philosophical works between the end of the Ming dynasty and the beginning of the Qing dynasty in China ; 第21冊.

Local access dig.pdf. in folder: [Andrew Chung Series].