"...Eighteenth century Jesuit mission monographs and reports. The contributions of Joseph-Marie Amiot, Pierre-Martial Cibot, and Antoine Gaubil are preponderant. Amoit’s 350-page essay on the antiquity of the Chinese as proved by their monuments is in vol. 2; his monograph on Chinese music and musical instruments is in vol. 6; his renditions of three of the Seven Military Classics and two mid Qing military drill manuals are in vols. 7 and 8 (note); his 40-page life of Koung-tse (“appellee vulgairement Confucius”) is in vol. 12; his 230-page chronological table of the Chinese empire is in vol. 13; and his scoop reporting on the Siku quanshu 四庫全書 is in vols. 13 and 15 (Europe’s and America’s first information on the imperial collection). Cibot contributed about 100 studies on all kinds of Chinese manufactures and commodities. These are scattered in most of the volumes. Gaubil’s pioneering 500-page chronological history of the Tang, Abrégé de l’histoire chinoise de la grande dynastie des T’ang (completed by 1753) is in vols 15-16. It was, he says, based on the 21 Histories, the Tongjian 通鑑, the Tongjian gangmu 通鑑綱目, and the Lidai jishi nianbiao 歷代紀事年表. His studies of Chinese chronology are also in vol. 16 (based, he says, on Tse-tchikang-kien-ta-tuen [probably Zizhi gangjian zhengshi daquan 資治綱鑑正史大全. Zhong Xing 鐘惺, ed. end Ming]). Vol. 10 contains a 300-page general index to vols 1-10 (Cordier also lists all the contents). For a background to the Mémoires, see Dehergne, 1983. -– Cf. Wilkinson,Chinese history, a new manual. p. 398.

Online on different sites. See: Bibliotheca Sinica for aggregated links.
See also:Internet Archive.
Local access see folder [Memoires des Chinoises]

Notes sur le T'oemet / par Joseph Van Oost.
French and Chinese.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The first Chinese music heard in Europe : instruments and musicians in the study of Chinese music in Europe during the long 18th century" / Åberg, Måns Ahlstedt

Published in Early Music Oxford Academic, 2025

Available online through Boston College Libraries 

Abstract:

In existing studies of Sino-Western music history, there has been insufficient focus on the importance of the Chinese instruments that were brought to Europe. During the early modern era, such instruments were not only studied theoretically—they were also played. This article looks partly at the attempts to play Chinese instruments by European musicologists who were interested in the music of China and partly at the musical performances of four early Chinese visitors to Europe: Shen Fuzong (沈福宗), Loum Kiqua (林奇官), Fung Assing (馮亞星) and Fung Ahok (馮亞學). These activities are notable in music history as being the first occasions on which Chinese music was experienced by European listeners outside of East Asia. This article thus shows that Chinese soundworlds could be experienced by Europeans outside of China at the time—something that prior research had ruled out. The attitudes of the European listeners to these sounds mirror the historical development of Western opinions about China, from the Sinophile curiosity of the Enlightenment to the more dismissive attitude of the early 19th century.