Miscellaneous pieces relating to the Chinese.
Contributors: Mosheim, Johann Lorenz, 1694?-1755.; Parennim, Dominique, 1665-1741,; Prémare, Joseph Henri de, 1666-1736,
Publisher: Dodsley
Published: 1762
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: China -- Description and travel.
Table of contents: value: Vol. 1. Dissertation on the language and characters of the Chinese.  Rules of conduct by a Chinese author, from the French of P. Parennim.  The little orphan of the House of Chao, a Chinese tragedy, from the French translation of P. de Premare.  On the Chinese drama, from Mr. Hurd's Discourse on poetical imitation.-  Vol. 2. Authentic memoirs of the Christian Church in China, fom the German of J.L. de Mosheim.  Of the art of laying out gardens among the Chinese, by Mr. Chambers.  A description of the Emperor's gardens and pleasure-houses near Peking, from the French of Frère Attiret.  A description of the solemnities observed at Peking on the Emperor's mother entering on the sixtieth year of her age, from the French of P. Amyot.