Journal d'un voyage à Peking / traduit du hollandais et du manuscrit autographe de M. Titzingh.
Scope and content
Photocopy of account of the last Dutch embassy to the court of Ch'ien-lung describing the journey from Canton to Peking in late 1794, the sojourn at Peking, and the return trip to Canton in the spring of 1795. Also a translation done in 1984 by Dorothy Wright and an article, "New Evidence on the Authorship of 'Titsingh's Journal' by Wright and Dorothy W. Davis, published in CH'ING-SHIH WEN-T'I, vol. 5, no. 1 (June 1984).
Dates
- 1794 - 1795
- Undated
Creator
- Guignes, Joseph de, 1721-1800. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
The manuscript was originally purported to be a French translation from the Dutch of a journal by Isaac Titsingh, the First Ambassador of the Dutch embassy to the court of Ch'ien-lung in 1794 and 1795. A 1984 examination of a photocopy of the manuscript suggested that it was actually.
Biographical / Historical
written by Joseph de Guignes, an interpreter on the embassy.
Extent
.4 cubic feet. (.4 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
Location of Originals Note
Holder of originals: Original journal, Add. 18102, in--British Museum. England.
Alternate Form Available
Journal available on: microfilm. Cornell University, Wason Film 8873.
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
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