Summary:
The interpretation of dreams has always been an important feature of Chinese culture, both learned and popular. This article aims to analyse how Jesuit missionaries in China approached this issue. In theory, missionaries from the Society of Jesus had their own oneirology, inherited from Aristotle, and some of them, such as Francesco Sambiasi and Giulio Aleni, wrote on the matter. However, Jesuit records show that this subject was far from unanimously treated within the Society. Jesuit archives in the Biblioteca da Ajuda (Lisbon) contain several accounts of dreams of Chinese converts, as well as some comments from missionaries on the subject.
This article also contains a case-study of dream accounts and visions of a Chinese convert whose biography was written by Jacques Motel SJ (1616–92).
Summary also in Portuguese.

Local access dig.pdf. [Ribeiro-Dreams.pdf]

"An incomplete reading of the manuscript reveals that it is nearly identical with the printed version, with few but sometimes significant differences. One of these differences is a reference to the Shunzhi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong Emperors. A manuscript which refers to the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735-1795) must have been copied after 1735. Hence the manuscript cannot predate the edition of the book printed in 1688. I suggest that the manuscript is an unpublished attempt to update the biography. This theory is supported by the fact that the portions of the book that tie it specifically to persons and events of the 1680’s, when it was first written, are omitted from the manuscript. These include the first paragraph of the book presenting it to “Madame the Marchioness ... “ and the section of the 1688 edition from the bottom of page 147 through mid-page 151, in which Fr. Couplet talks about the Duchess of Aveiro and other benefactors of the China mission of his day, the sending of the French Jesuit mathematicians to the Chinese court, and the French mission to Siam. The manuscript ends with the paragraph corresponding to the last half of page 151 of the 1688 edition, further omitting the final section which reads, "Tandis que je teray profession d’etre jusqua’au bout du Monde, & à l’extremité de ma vie, Madame, Votre tres humble & tres obeissant serviteur, P.C. Procureur General des Missions de la Chine, de la Compagnie de Jesus." (pp. 151-152) The imprimatur dated November 3, 1687 is also omitted. I suspect that the manuscript was done during the eighteenth century, after 1735 and before 1774 when the Jesuits in Peking learned of the final suppression of the Society of Jesus by order of Pope Clement XIV."

N.B. The following (French 1688 edition) is for information only. (See OCLC # 15232567 for holdings info)>
Couplet, Philippe, 1632-1692. [Historia nobilis Feminae Candidae Hiu, Christianae Sinensis. French.]
Histoire d'une dame chrétienne de la Chine, ou, Par occasion les usages de ces peuples, l'établissement de la religion, les manieres des missionaires, & les exercices de pieté des nouveaux chrétiens sont expliquez.
A Paris : Chez Estienne Michallet, 1688. 151 p. : ill. ; 16 cm. (12mo). Translation of: Historia nobilis Feminae Candidae Hiu, Christianae Sinensis. Running title: Histoire d'une dame de la Chine. Backer-Sommervogel, II, 563, no. 8.
Subject headings: Hiu, Madame, d. 1680. -- Christians--China--Biography.
Cf. Standaert, Handbook of Christianity in China, v. 1: pp. 292, 394, 420, 428, 431 (Bibliography), 581, 601.
Dig. file local access only. [DameChretien.pdf]

References:
Backer-Sommervogel II, column 1563, no. 8
Lust, J. Western books on China, 805
Cordier, H. Bibliotheca Sinica 2. éd., Vol. 2, Sp. 832
Copyright: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Local access dig.pdf. [Couplet-Dame Chretienne Candide Hiu.pdf]
Online at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.