Prisonniers de l'Empire Celeste: Le desastre de la premiere ambassade portugaise en Chine (1517-1524) Recits & temoignages portugais & chinois

摘要

The history of the first Luso-Chinese encounters in the early sixteenth century, nearly forty years prior to the foundation of Macao in the mid-1550s, fills many learned books and articles. These events are told in many different ways, and the intellectual dimensions associated with them usually vary from one account to the next. The present work is no exception in that regard. It opens with a long introduction by Pascale Girard, who has published extensively on Sino-Iberian themes; this is followed by a collection of documents and texts translated into French, most of which were prepared by Joao Viegas. In other cases older versions were chosen to be included in the collection; several of these texts go back to Paul Pelliot, whose famous work on the "Hoja et le Sayyid Husain de l'histoire des Ming", published in T'oung Pao 38 (1948), no doubt, constituted a major source of inspiration for the present book.