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1 Online-Ressource (308 pages)
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ISBN:
9781139505857
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
Content:
A French Jesuit and missionary to China, Antoine Gaubil (1689–1759) spent half his life in Beijing. His rigorous translations and studies in the fields of history, geography, astronomy and cartography made him one of the finest sinologists of his day. Thanks to his remarkable mastery of Chinese language, he also became the official interpreter to European embassies for the imperial court. Respected throughout Europe, he was a corresponding member of the Royal Society of London, the French Académie Royale des Sciences and the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Edited by the French philologist and orientalist Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758–1838), this work was published posthumously in 1814. In it, Gaubil comments on Chinese chronology from the beginning of time until 206 BCE and the start of the Han dynasty. Expertly examining the sources on which this chronology is based, this remains an important contribution to Chinese historiography
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108055062
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108055062
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139505857
Author information:
Gaubil, Antoine 1689-1759
Author information:
Sacy, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de 1758-1838
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