Jean-Baptiste Du Halde
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Jean-Baptiste Du Halde | |
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Born | |
Died | August 18, 1743 Paris, France | (aged 69)
Citizenship | French |
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Fields | History |
Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (Chinese: 杜赫德, Pinyin: Dù Hèdé; 1 February 1674 – 18 August 1743) was a French Jesuit historian specializing in China. He did not travel to China, but collected seventeen Jesuit missionaries' reports and provided an encyclopedic survey of the history, culture and society of China and "Chinese Tartary," that is, Manchuria.
Voltaire said of Du Halde's work: "Although it is developed out of Paris, and he hath not known the Chinese, [he] gave on the basis of the memoirs of his colleagues, the widest and the best description the empire of China has had worldwide."[1]
Career
Du Halde entered the
Du Halde is also the author of writings in Latin as well as a treatise entitled Le Sage chrétien, ou les Principes de la vraie sagesse, pour se conduire chrétiennement dans le monde (The Christian Sage, or the principles of true wisdom, to lead a Christian in the world), published in 1724.
Description of China
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Drawn from the Jesuit
It had a significant impact on European society in the 18th century, including a decades-long English interest in China and Chinese thought. The philosophers of the
See also
- Jesuit China missions
References
Citations
- ^ Le Siècle de Louis XIV, Catalogue de la plupart des écrivains français qui ont paru dans le Siècle de Louis XIV, pour servir à l’histoire littéraire de ce temps, 1751.
- ^ Du Halde (1736).
- ^ Du Halde (1741).
Sources
- Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste (1735), Description Geographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique, et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise [A Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political, and Physical Description of the Empire of China and of Chinese Tartary], Paris: P.-G. le Mercier. (in French) – Vol. I, II, III, & IV
- Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste (1736), Description Géographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique, et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise [A Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political, and Physical Description of the Empire of China and Chinese Tartary], The Hague: H. Scheurleer. (in French) – Vols. I, II, III, & IV
- Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste (1741), Brookes, Richard (ed.), The General History of China, 3rd ed., London: J. Watts – Vols. I, II, III, & IV
- Isabelle Landry-Deron, La Preuve par la Chine : la Description de J.-B. Du Halde, jésuite, 1735, Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 2002.
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