The Chinese Gazette in European Sources

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The Chinese Gazette in European Sources is written by Nicolas Standaert and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004505008 (ISBN 10) and 9789004505001 (ISBN 13).

The Chinese gazette as a publicly available government publication was distributed in a variety of formats since the twelfth century. Little is known, however, about its form and content before 1800. By looking at China from the periphery, this study shows how European sources offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette, as translated by European missionaries, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers. It thus joined a global public much earlier than so far assumed.