Subject: Jesuits, French--Missions--China--18th century

François Xavier Dentrecolles et l'apport de la Chine à l'Europe du XVIIIe siècle
AuthorThomaz de Bossierre (Bossière), Yves de, Mme
PlaceParis
PublisherBelles Lettres
CollectionRicci Institute Library [R9]
LanguageFrench
TypeBook
SeriesCathasia, La Chine au temps des lumières ; 5
ShelfSeminar Room 102-103
Call NumberD34.C6 C47 v. 5
Descriptionxvii, 192 p. : illl. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
NoteT.p. appears as: François Xavier Dentrecolles [Yin Hong-siu Ki-tsong] et l'apport de la Chine à l'Europe du XVIIIe siècle / par Mme Yves de Thomaz de Bossièrre ; avant-propos du P. Joseph Dehergne.
"Yin Hong-siu Ki-tsong" i.e. Yin Hongxu Jizong 殷弘緒繼宗
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index.

Includes chapters on Dentrecolles' arrival in China, his role as Superior General of the French Mission, 1707-1719; with Fr. Foucquet; troubles with Pedrini; visit of the Second Pontifical Legate; the death of Kangxi and the enthronement of Yongzheng; with the Ambassador of the King of Portugal; persecution and death. As a translator and transmitter of Chinese classics and histories; descriptions of money; technical matters such as manufacture and production of porcelain, silk, artificial flowers, pearls, Chinese medicine, ginseng, tea, botany, bamboo.

ISBN2251352082
LCCN82225887
L'épopée des jésuites français en Chine (1534-1928)
AuthorSoulié de Morant, G. (Georges), 1878-1955
PlaceParis
PublisherBernard Grasset
CollectionBibl. Sinensis Soc. Iesu, Ricci Institute Library [JPW]
LanguageFrench
TypeBook
ShelfRare Books, Room 103C, Rare Book Stacks
Call NumberBX3746.E777 S786 1928
Description295, [1] p. ; 19 cm.
Note

L’épopée des jésuites français en Chine (1534-1928) / par Georges Soulié de Morant.
”Le Beau Voyage”--colophon.

LCCN29-11039