Description de la Chine, Volume 2

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Title of translation: Description de la Chine, Volume 2
Year: 1735
Translator(s)/Commentators(s): Du Halde
Book Type: Print
Language(s): French (FR, FRE)
Chinese text: None
Place of translation: Paris
Place of First Publication: Paris
Publisher's Imprint: chez P. G. LEMERCIER, Imprimeur-libraire, rue Saint- Jacques, au livre d’Or
Classical Source(s): Doctrine of the Mean (中庸); Great Learning (大学); Analects (论语); Mencius (孟子); Classic of Poetry (诗经); Book of Rites (礼经); Book of Documents (书经); Book of Changes (易经); Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋)
Intermediate Source: Sinensis Imperii Libri Classici Sex, nimirum adultorum schola, immutabile medium, liber sententiarum, memcius, filialis observantia, parvulorum schola
Sections: 1735 Translation of Book of Changes (易经) (Chapter); 1735 Translation of Book of Documents (书经) (Chapter); 1735 Translation of Classic of Poetry (诗经) (Chapter); 1735 Translation of Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋) (Chapter); 1735 Translation of Book of Rites (礼经) (Chapter); 1735 Translation of Great Learning (大学) (Chapter); 1735 Translation of Doctrine of the Mean (中庸) (Chapter); 1735 Translation of Analects (论语) (Chapter); 1735 Translation of Mencius (孟子) (Chapter); 1735 Translation of Classic of Filial Piety (孝经) (Chapter); 1735 Translation of Elementary Learning (小學) (Chapter)
Summary: 2nd volume, with summaries and extracts of the Five Classics and the Four Books, based almost exclusively on Noël, with a general introduction "De la Litterature Chinoise (pp. 284-286)" and a life of Confucius “Vie de Cong fou tsee ou Confucius" (pp. 319-324). It is divided in two parts:
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<li>Des King Chinois, ou des Livres Canoniques du premier Ordre (pp. 286-287).</li>
<li>Des Livre Classiques ou Canoniques du second Ordre (pp. 319-384).</li>
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Later Editions: Du Halde, J. B., Description Geographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique, et Physique de L’Empire de La Chine et de La Tartarie Chinoise, Hague: Henri Scheurleer, 1736.
URLs: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k56991284.texteImage; https://www.chineancienne.fr/17e-18e-s/du-halde-description-de-la-chine/
Bibliography: Luo Ying, “The Jesuits’ Latin Translations of the Zhongyong 中庸 During the 17th and 18th Centuries”. In Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 26 (2016), p.1-24.
Catalogues: In Pfister, Louis (1932-1934). Notices biographiques et bibliographiques sur les Jésuites de l'ancienne Mission de Chine: 1552-1773, Imprimerie de la mission Catholique, Shanghai: 169. Le P. Francois Noel, 3. p. 417. "Bien auparavant, du Halde (Description, t. II, p. 38g) en avait donne l'analyse et des extraits."