The Jesuits in China - Paperback

by Feodosy Smorzhevsky (Author)

This is a translation by Barbara Maggs of a work originally published as: "Ob iezuitakh v Kitae. (Otryvok iz kitaiskikh zapisok Ieromonakha Feodosiia Smorzhevskogo)" On the Jesuits in China (Excerpt from Notes on China by Hieromonk Feodosy Smorzhevsky)] contributed by E.F. Timkovsky, Sibirskii vestnik Siberian Herald], Pt. 19 (1822), 107-32, 181-210; Pt. 20 (1822), 227-54, 295-310, 329-56. The book is an important source of information on China in the eighteenth century, on the Jesuits in China, and on the Russian Orthodox Mission in Peking.