The Chinese gazette in European sources : joining the global public in the early and mid-Qing dynasty

Contents
Acknowledgments
Figures
Introduction
	Brief Presentation of the Chinese Gazette
	A Question of Terms
	Short Historiography of the Study of the Chinese Gazette of the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty
	Quasi Absence of Chinese Copies of the Gazette from the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty
	About This Book
Chapter 1 The Kangxi Period (1662–1722)
	1.1 Scattered References
	1.2 The Tancheng 郯城 Earthquake
	1.3 Contacts with Publishers
	Conclusion
Chapter 2 The Yongzheng Period (1723–1735)
	2.1 Reports by Perroni in the Archivio Storico “de Propaganda Fide”
		2.1.1 Selection of Various News
		2.1.2 Description and Use of the Gazettes
		2.1.3 Vision on the Emperor and the Bureaucracy
		2.1.4 Other Documents
	2.2 Letters by Contancin in Lettres édifiantes et curieuses
		2.2.1 First Letter
		2.2.2 Second Letter
		2.2.3 Third Letter
		2.2.4 Evaluating Contancin’s Letters as a Source
	2.3 Reception
		2.3.1 Academic Journals and Pamphlets: Journal des sçavans, Mémoires de Trévoux, and the Bee
		2.3.2 The Collection Description … de la Chine
		2.3.3 Works on Chinese and World History
		2.3.4 Enlightenment Thinkers: Voltaire, Montesquieu, Quesnay
			2.3.4.1 Voltaire
			2.3.4.2 Montesquieu
			2.3.4.3 Quesnay
		2.3.5 The Swedish Freedom of Writing and the Press Act of 1766
		Conclusion
Chapter 3 The Qianlong Period (1736–1795)
	3.1 European and Chinese Sources
		3.1.1 European Sources: A Collection, a Manuscript, and Letters
		3.1.2 Chinese Source: tizou shijian 題奏事件
	3.2 Text Management in Terms of Selection and Translation
		3.2.1 Selection Process
			3.2.1.1 The Case of Jin Congshan 金從善
			3.2.1.2 The Case of Zhi Tianbao 智天豹
		3.2.2 Translation into French
		3.2.3 Editorial Work in Paris
		3.2.4 Reasons for the Use of Gazettes as Source
		3.2.5 Supplement through Personal Contacts
	3.3 Presence of the Gazettes in Mémoires concernant les Chinois
		3.3.1 References to the Gazettes
		3.3.2 Topics Reported on the Basis of the Chinese Gazette
		3.3.3 The Case of the Siku quanshu 四庫全書
	3.4 Vision on the Gazette and the Emperor
		3.4.1 Public Good, Imperial Truth, and Critical Views
		3.4.2 A Certain Image of the Emperor
	3.5 Reception History
		3.5.1 Academic Journals
		3.5.2 Bertin and the French King
		Conclusion
General Conclusion
	Looking at China from the Periphery
	Form, Structure, Content
	Participants in the Local Information System
	Writers and Translators in a Global Information Network
	Interpreters and Commentators
	Interconnected Cultural History
Guide to the Sources
	1 Archivio Storico “de Propaganda Fide” (APF), Rome
		1.1 Scritture Originali delle Congregazioni Particolari dell’Indie orientali e Cina (SOCP)
		1.2 Scritture riferite nei Congressi (SC), Indie orientali e Cina
	2 Lettres édifiantes et curieuses (LEC)
		2.1 “Lettre du Père Contancin, missionnaire de la Compagnie de Jésus, au Père Etienne Souciet, de la même Compagnie” (2 December 1725 in Canton)
		2.2 “Lettre du Père Contancin, missionnaire de la Compagnie de Jésus, au Père Etienne Souciet, de la même Compagnie” (15 December 1727 in Canton)
		2.3 “Lettre du Père Contancin, missionnaire de la Compagnie de Jésus, au Père Duhalde, de la même Compagnie” (19 October 1730 in Canton)
	3 Mémoires concernant l’histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages, &c. des Chinois, par les missionnaires de Pékin, 17 vols., Paris: Nyon Libraire – Treuttel et Würtz, 1776–1814. (MCC)
		3.1 Mémoires concernant … les Chinois (MCC), Vol. 9 (1783)
		3.2 Mémoires concernant … les Chinois (MCC), Vol. 11 (1786)
		3.3 Mémoires concernant … les Chinois (MCC), Vol. 12 (1786)
		3.4 Mémoires concernant … les Chinois (MCC), Vol. 13 (1788)
		3.5 Mémoires concernant … les Chinois (MCC), Vol. 14 (1789)
		3.6 Mémoires concernant … les Chinois (MCC), Vol. 15 (1791)
	4 Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Paris, Département des manuscrits: Bréquigny 10
	5 Existing Copies of tizou shijian 題奏事件
Bibliography
Index