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Title: De la situation du Japon et de la Core e. Manuscrit ine dit
du Pe re A. Gaubil, S.J. Publie avec des notes par H. Cordier ...
Extrait du "T'oung-pao," vol. IX., no. 2.Publisher: British
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British Library Gaubil, Antoine; Cordier, Henri; 1898. 16 p.; 8 .
010055.f.11.(3.)
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 Academie 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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