The Westward Dissemination of Pre-modern Chinese Book Collections to Europe

One of the most magnificent collections of pre-modern Chinese books kept in Europe, was brought to France by Joachim Bouvet, a French missionary, in the 17th century. It is widely accepted that these 49 volumes of Chinese books were a gift from the Chinese emperor Kangxi to Louis XIV, the King of F...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:60bd3ed68e6c424c941a878cb66a27a62021-11-27T12:55:00ZThe Westward Dissemination of Pre-modern Chinese Book Collections to Europe10.12797/RM.02.2020.08.042544-21392544-2546https://doaj.org/article/60bd3ed68e6c424c941a878cb66a27a62020-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/relacje/article/view/2514https://doaj.org/toc/2544-2139https://doaj.org/toc/2544-2546 One of the most magnificent collections of pre-modern Chinese books kept in Europe, was brought to France by Joachim Bouvet, a French missionary, in the 17th century. It is widely accepted that these 49 volumes of Chinese books were a gift from the Chinese emperor Kangxi to Louis XIV, the King of France, with Bouvet, the person who brought the books, believed to have been appointed as the Kangxi Emperor’s special envoy. However, as I intend to show here, it may be that neither was Bouvet a special envoy, nor were the books a gift from the Chinese emperor. Zhou YueshanKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleChinese historymissionarypre-modern Chinese book collectionsJoachim BouvetEthnology. Social and cultural anthropologyGN301-674ENPLRelacje Międzykulturowe, Vol 4, Iss 2(8) (2020)
institution DOAJ
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language EN
PL
topic Chinese history
missionary
pre-modern Chinese book collections
Joachim Bouvet
Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology
GN301-674
spellingShingle Chinese history
missionary
pre-modern Chinese book collections
Joachim Bouvet
Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology
GN301-674
Zhou Yueshan
The Westward Dissemination of Pre-modern Chinese Book Collections to Europe
description One of the most magnificent collections of pre-modern Chinese books kept in Europe, was brought to France by Joachim Bouvet, a French missionary, in the 17th century. It is widely accepted that these 49 volumes of Chinese books were a gift from the Chinese emperor Kangxi to Louis XIV, the King of France, with Bouvet, the person who brought the books, believed to have been appointed as the Kangxi Emperor’s special envoy. However, as I intend to show here, it may be that neither was Bouvet a special envoy, nor were the books a gift from the Chinese emperor.
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