A new history of China containing a description of the most considerable particulars of that vast empire / written by Gabriel Magaillans, of the Society of Jesus ... ; done out of French.
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- A new history of China containing a description of the most considerable particulars of that vast empire / written by Gabriel Magaillans, of the Society of Jesus ... ; done out of French.
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- Magalhães, Gabriel de, 1609-1677.
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- London :: Printed for Thomas Newborough ...,
- 1688.
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Contents
- title page
- THE PREFACE.
- THE CONTENTS.
- map
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A
New Relation OF CHINA:-
CHAP. I. Of the Names which theChineses and Foreigners give toChina; and of the Countries ofCa∣tai andMangi. -
Notes and Explanations of the first Chapter.
- P. 3. As we shall relate in it's due place.
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P. 3. The Kingdom ofChahamalaha, whose Inha∣bitants areMahometans, and which borders upon the Province ofXensi. -
P. 3. Usanguè. -
P. 3. Father Antony de Andrada, &c. -
P. 5. TheTartarian Alphabet which we shall give you in due place. -
P. 6. Mangi, orMantzu, Barbarians. -
P. 10. Stone-Coal, and Stoves of China. -
P. 12. That which causes M.Polo to commit these Mistakes, is this, that three leagues, &c. - P. 15.
- P. 16.
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Notes and Explanations of the first Chapter.
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CHAP. II. Of the Extent and Division ofChina: Of the Number of the Cities and other wall'd Towns; And some other particulars obser∣ved by theChinese Authors. -
CHAP. III. Of the Antiquity of the Kingdom ofChina, and what a high Opinion theChineses have of it. -
CHAP. IV. Of the Letters and Language ofChina. -
CHAP. V. Of the Wit of theChineses and their Prin∣cipal Books. -
CHAP. VI. Of the Civility and Politeness of theChineses, and of some of their Feasts. -
CHAP. VII. Of the Publick Works and Edifices of theChi∣neses, and particularly of the Grand Canal. -
CHAP. VIII. Of the great Industry of this Nation. -
CHAP. IX. Of the Navigation of theChineses. -
CHAP. X. Of the great Plenty of all things inChina. -
CHAP. XI. Of the Nobility of the Empire. -
CHAP. XII. Of the wonderfull Government of this Empire; of the Distinctions between theMandarins, and of the Council of State. -
CHAP. XIII. Of the eleven Supream Tribunals, or of the six Tribunals of theMandarins for Letters, and the five Tribunals of theMandarins for Military Affairs. -
CHAP. XIV. Of several other Tribunals atPekim. - CHAP. XV.
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CHAP. XVI. Of the Grandeur of the Emperour ofChina, and of his Revenues. -
CHAP. XVII. A Desoription of the City ofPe Kim: Of the Walls that enclose the Emperour's Palace: And the form of the principal Houses ofChina. -
CHAP. XVIII. Of the twenty Apartments belonging to the Em∣perour's Palace. -
CHAP. XIX. A Description of twenty particular Palaces con∣tain'd in the inner Enclosure of the Empe∣rour's Palace. -
CHAP. XX. Of several other Palaces, and some Temples erected within the same Enclosures. -
CHAP. XXI. Of the Emperour's Temples seated inPe kim, and of the manner how the King goes abroad to perform publick Duties.
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An Aridgment of the Life and Death of F.
Ga∣briel Magaillans, of the Society ofJesus, Missionary intoChina, written by F.Lewis Buglio, his inseparable Companion for six and thirty Years; and sent fromPe Kim in the Year 1677.