A Chinese bestiary : strange creatures from the guideways through mountains and seas = 山海經 / edited and translated with commentary by Richard E. Strassberg.
"Philip E. Lilienthal Asian studies endowment."
Parallel title in Chinese characters.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.

Illustrations; Preface; Editorial Notes; Introduction; Plates I to LXXVI from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Glossary Index to Plates.

"A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries, B.C.E., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mountains, rivers, islands, and seas, along with minerals, flora, and medicine. The text also represents a wide range of beliefs held by the ancient Chinese. Richard Strassberg brings the Guideways to life for modern readers by weaving together translations from the work itself with information from other texts and recent archaeological finds to create a lavishly illustrated guide to the imaginative world of early China." "Unlike the bestiaries of the late medieval period in Europe, the Guideways was not interpreted allegorically; the strange creatures described in it were regarded as actual entities found throughout the landscape. The work was originally used as a sacred geography, as a guidebook for travelers, and as a book of omens. Today, it is regarded as the richest repository of ancient Chinese mythology and shamanistic wisdom. The Guideways may have been illustrated from the start, but the earliest surviving illustrations are woodblock engravings from a rare 1597 edition. All seventy-six of those plates are reproduced here for the first time, and they provide a fine example of the Chinese engraver's art during the late Ming dynasty."--Jacket.

Local access dig. pdf. [Strassberg-Bestiary.pdf]
Also in Djvu format.

An embassy to China : being the journal kept by Lord Macartney during his embassy to the Emperor Ch'ien-lung, 1793-1794 / illustrated with watercolour sketches made during the Embassy by William Alexander ; introduced by Jonathan Spence ; edited by J.L. Cranmer-Byng.
Spine title: Lord Macartney, An Embassy to China.
In slip case. Maps on lining papers.
Includes index.

***Graphic resource: Intrduced European audience to China Jesuits, Nestorian monument translation, Sino-Chaldean, Syro-Chaldean text, early romanization systems, Christianity in China, Christian missions, Marco Polo, Brahmins, Indian scripts, plants and exotica, Great Wall, Chinese characters.
Local access dig.pdf. [China Illustrata-English.pdf]

Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis, qvà sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturæ & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, auspiciis Leopoldi Primi roman. imper ...
Added t.p., engraved. "Elenchus librorum a P. Athanasio Kirchero ... editorum": 2 p. at end.

Monumenti syro-sinici interpretatio.--De variis itineribus in Chinam susceptis.--De idololatria ex Occidente primùm in Persidem, Indiam ac deinde in ultimas Orientis, Tartariæ, Chinæ, Japponiæ regiones successivâ propagatione introducta.--China curiosis naturæ & artis miraculis illustrata.--De architectonica cæterisque mechanicis artibus Sinensium.--De Sinensium literatura.

Library copy markings (B[ibliotheca] M[ajor] ZKW M11).
N.B. Library copy missing two important engravings, those of Schall and of Ricci & Xu Guangqi. Bindery note inserted indicates missing sheets.

The full text of China monumentis is available online on several websites.
See ECHO website
See also: Internet Archive
See also: Beyond Ricci (as China Illustrata)

For complete bibliographic information see Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database).
Local access digital pdf. [Kircher-China monumentis.pdf]

See also Hathi Trust

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European responses to child abandonment, sale of children and social welfare policies in Ming China / Rachana Sachdev -- Of golden lilies and gentlewomen : constructions of Chinese women in early modern European travel narratives / Qingjun Li -- Earlier moderns : the novel form as national development in China and Europe / Daniel Dooghan -- "A strong resemblance" : Samuel Richardson, Chinese talent-beauty novels, and a secret origin of "world literature" / Ning Ma -- 'Magicians, enchanters, and professional crooks' : early modern understandings of Daoism / Ronnie Littlejohn -- Buddhism and idolatry / Terry Logan Mazurak.

Iram yŏn'gi  일암 연기 一菴 燕記 /  Yi Ki-ji chiŭm ; Cho Yung-hŭi, Sin Ik-ch'ŏl, Pu Yu-sŏp omgim  이 기지 지음 ; 조 융희, 신 익철, 부 유섭 옮김.

In Korean and Korean Hanmun (Chinese).
Includes index.

[1]. Yŏkchu p'yŏn 역주 편 -- [2]. Wŏnmun p'yŏn  원문 편.

"이 기지 (李 器之) 가 아버지 이 이명 (李 頤命) 을 따라 북경 에 다녀 오면서 기록 한 연행 (燕行) 일기 이다. 1720년 7월 27일 서울 을 출발 하여 1721년 1월 7일 에 귀환 하기 까지 의 기록"--역자 서문.

Dig. pdf local access: Iram yŏn'gi 일암 연기.pdf

La Chine d'Athanase Kirchere de la Compagnie de Jesus : illustrée de plusieurs monuments tant sacrés que profanes, et de quantité de recherchés de la nature et de l'art : a quoy on à adjousté de nouveau les questions curieuses que le serenissime grand duc de Toscane a fait dépuis peu au P. Jean Grubere touchant ce grand empire : avec un dictionaire [sic] chinois & françois, lequel est tres-rare, & qui n'a pas encores paru au jour /  traduit par F.S. Dalquié.

Translation of: China monumentis qua sacris qua profanis ..., 1667.
Added engraved title page has imprint: Amstelodami, Apud Johannem Janssonium à Waesberge et Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1667.
Dedicatory letter addressed: A monseigneur monseigneur le marquis de Louvois ...
Signatures: *⁴ **⁴ A-2Z⁴ 3A⁶.
Title page vignette; initials; tail-pieces. Page 151 misnumbered as first page 153.

L'interprétation du monument syro-chinois -- Des divers chemins qu'on a tenu pour aller à la Chine -- De l'idolatrie venue d'Occident -- La Chine illustrée des miracles de la nature & de l'art -- De l'architecture et des autres arts méchaniques de Chinois -- De l'escritures des Chinois -- La briefve & exacte response du père Jean Grubere de la Societé de Jesus, a toutes les questions que le serenissime grand duc de Toscane, luy a faites -- Dictionaire chinois & françois.

Local access dig.pdf. [Kircher-Chine.pdf]

Link to Internet Archive

Library copy imperfect. Lacks title page and engraved frontispiece (portrait of Semedo in Chinese costume).
Translation of: Relação da propagação da fe no reyno da China e outros adjacentes. Translated by G.B. Giattini, S.J.
Backer-Sommervogel, vol. 3, col. 1395, no. 11 (1653 edition?)
OCLC number is for 1653 ed. titled: Historica relatione del gran regno della Cina ...divisa in due parti. Nella prima si tratta del regno in comune. Delle prouincie in particolare. Delle persone Cinesi. Del modo vestire ... Nella seconda, dell'origine della predicatione euangelica, con tutti li successi sino alli tempi nostri / del p. Alvaro Semedo Portoghese della Compagnia di Giesv.

Online at Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (Biblioteca Nacional de España).
Online at Internet Archive.
Local access. dig.pdf. [Osbeck-Voyage v. 1 & 2.pdf]

Yesuhuishi Zhongguo shu jianji : Zhongguo huiyi lu 耶穌會士中國書簡集 : 中國回憶錄 / Duhede bian ; Zheng Dedi, Lü Yimin, Shen Jian yi 杜赫德編; 鄭德弟, 呂一民, 沈堅譯.
Translators varies for each vol., e.g. 朱靜等譯 (v. 2-3).
Series edited by the Guoji Hanxue yanjiu shuxi 國際漢學研究書系 / Ren Jiyu zhubian 任繼愈主編.
A roster of members is included in v. 1.
Library has vol. 1-3 only.