Contents: Preface, Edward Malatesta, S.J. et Yves Raguin, S.J.-- L'Images des régimes politiques de l'Europe dans le miroir des envoyés impérieaux chinois (1866-1907) / Ch'en Feng -- China's mid-nineteenth century images of Russia and Peter the Great / Fred W. Drake -- Some remarks on images of China in Scandanavia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Elizabeth Eide -- The "National" images of China in different European countries ca. 1550-1800 / Walter Demel -- The Ninety-nine ways of destroying the Manchus by Yen Chi-heng [Yan Jiheng 嚴季亨] : a rare survivor of Qianlong's "literary inquisition" / Giovanni Stary -- The "Mission Palais d'Été" and its study of the European palaces of the Yüan-ming-yüan [Yuanming Yuan 圓明園] / Régine Thiriez -- The War paintings of the Western region of China by Giuseppe Castiglione / Hao Zhenhua 郝鎮華 -- Orientalism, sinology and public policy: Baron Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy and the foundation of Chinese studies in post-Revolutionary France / Harriet Zurndorfer -- La Chine populaire face aux jésuites (1582-1723): le début d'une réévaluation historique / Paolo Calanca -- Paul Pelliot and state-of-the-art research on the fifteenth-century navigations / Shih-san Tsai [Cai Shishan] -- The Earliest accounts of the Liqueio (Ryukyu) Islands in eighteenth-century Europe / Edward Kajdanski -- The Earliest European atlas of Ming China: an unpublished work by Michele Ruggieri / Eugenio Lo Sardo -- Une légation à Rome manquée: Joachim Bouvet et Sabino Mariani / Claudia von Collani -- Moses or China? / Paul Rule -- Leibniz and China: from natural theology to true philosophy / Rita Widmaier -- Empreintes figuristes dans Notiae Linguae Sinicae / Knud Lundbaek -- The Tragedy of Michael Boym / Edward Malatesta -- Claude Visdelou and the Chinese paradox / John Witek -- Chinese Catholic clergy and catechists in eighteenth century Szechuan [Sichuan 四川] / Robert Entenmann -- Development of Shilhak [實學] and Western studies in eighteenth century Korea / Kim Orun.