Journal d'un voyage à Peking traduit du hollandais et du manuscrit autographe de M. Titzingh. [18--]

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Journal d'un voyage à Peking traduit du hollandais et du manuscrit autographe de M. Titzingh. [18--]

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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).

.4 cubic ft.

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Cornell University Library

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Guignes, Joseph ˜deœ 1721-1800

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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. written by Joseph de Guignes, an interpreter on the embassy. From the description of Journal d'un voyage à Peking traduit du hollandais et du manuscrit autographe de M. Titzing...

Titsingh, Isaac, 1744-1812

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Titsingh was governor of Batavia and council extraordinary of Netherlands India. From the description of Collections of Monsieur Isaac Titsingh, Governor of Batavia, 1784-1916 (bulk 1784-1795). (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63977519 "This volume [sic] is composed of the collection of Isaac Titsingh, governor of Batavia and council extraordinary of Netherlands India. The first papers consist of a defense of the conduct of Isaac Tit...