Description de la Chine, Volume 2

Bibliographic Data

Year1735
Translator(s)/ Commentators(s)Du Halde
Book TypePrint
Language(s)French (FR, FRE)
Chinese TextNone
Place Of TranslationParis
Place Of First PublicationParis
Publisher's Imprintchez P. G. LEMERCIER, Imprimeur-libraire, rue Saint- Jacques, au livre d’Or

Sources

Classical Source(s)Doctrine of the Mean (中庸)
Great Learning (大学)
Analects (论语)
Mencius (孟子)
Classic of Poetry (诗经)
Book of Rites (礼经)
Book of Documents (书经)
Book of Changes (易经)
Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋)
Intermediate SourceSinensis Imperii Libri Classici Sex, nimirum adultorum schola, immutabile medium, liber sententiarum, memcius, filialis observantia, parvulorum schola

Copies

Later EditionsDu Halde, J. B., Description Geographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique, et Physique de L’Empire de La Chine et de La Tartarie Chinoise, Hague: Henri Scheurleer, 1736.

Bibliography

BibliographyLuo Ying, “The Jesuits’ Latin Translations of the Zhongyong 中庸 During the 17th and 18th Centuries”. In Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 26 (2016), p.1-24.
CataloguesIn Pfister, Louis (1932-1934). Notices biographiques et bibliographiques sur les Jésuites de l'ancienne Mission de Chine: 1552-1773, Imprimerie de la mission Catholique, Shanghai: 169. Le P. Francois Noel, 3. p. 417. "Bien auparavant, du Halde (Description, t. II, p. 38g) en avait donne l'analyse et des extraits."
Summary2nd volume, with summaries and extracts of the Five Classics and the Four Books, based almost exclusively on Noël, with a general introduction "De la Litterature Chinoise (pp. 284-286)" and a life of Confucius “Vie de Cong fou tsee ou Confucius" (pp. 319-324). It is divided in two parts: Des King Chinois, ou des Livres Canoniques du premier Ordre (pp. 286-287). Des Livre Classiques ou Canoniques du second Ordre (pp. 319-384).

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1735 Translation of Book of Changes (易经) (Chapter)

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1735 Translation of Book of Documents (书经) (Chapter)

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1735 Translation of Book of Rites (礼经) (Chapter)

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1735 Translation of Classic of Filial Piety (孝经) (Chapter)

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1735 Translation of Classic of Poetry (诗经) (Chapter)

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1735 Translation of Doctrine of the Mean (中庸) (Chapter)

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1735 Translation of Elementary Learning (小學) (Chapter)

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1735 Translation of Great Learning (大学) (Chapter)

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1735 Translation of Mencius (孟子) (Chapter)

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1735 Translation of Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋) (Chapter)

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