Miscellaneous pieces relating to the Chinese ...
Publisher: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley
Published: 1762
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: China.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. A dissertation on the language and characters of the Chinese. Rules of conduct, by a Chinese author. Translated from the French of P. Parrenin. The little orphan of the House of Chao: A Chinese tragedy. Translated from the French version, published in the grand folio edition of P. du Halde's Description de l'Empire de la Chine, &c. Paris 1735. tome 3.; title: v. 2. Authentic memoirs of the Christian church in China: from the German of J.L. de Mosheim. Of the art of laying out gardens among the Chinese, by Mr. Chambers, architect. A description of the Emperor's garden and pleasure houses near Peking, from the French of Frere Attiret, Jesuit. 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, Jesuit.