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Premiers échanges culturels Chine-France : la ville de Pékin décrite par les "Mathématicien du roi"

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Louis Lecomte was one of the five French King Mathematicians who arrived in Beijing and was summoned by the Kangxi Emperor upon his arrival in 1688, beginning an early cultural exchange between the two countries that lasted nearly a century. Li Ming was one of the first Frenchmen in the late seventeenth century to go into China to study, travel, and preach, and to analyze and describe what he had seen and heard. Throughout his depiction of Beijing, it is easy to find that the author has always held a strong curiosity to explore the city with his own eyes and examine what can be seen in the foreign capital, and his depiction is like a realistic picture of Beijing during the Kangxi period. Li Ming's objective descriptions of Beijing's ancient history, unique architectural styles, and thriving commercial atmosphere were more informative for French readers in the Age of Enlightenment. Although Li Ming's stay in China was brief, the fourteen letters he published after his return to France provide a very detailed introduction to Chinese society, and his analysis is not only comprehensive and detailed, but also includes a number of cultural and historical comparisons between the situation in China and that in France at the time. Because of the "liturgical controversy", he had to return to France to explain the missionary situation in China, and in 1696 he published in Paris fourteen letters addressed to the French hierarchy during his stay in China under the title Les Nouveaux Memoires de! The present study focuses on Li Ming's work on Beijing, which was the first of its kind in the late seventeenth century.) The present study focuses on Li Ming's analysis and description of the characteristics of Beijing, especially his comparison of the differences between Chinese and French cities. Li Ming's observations and analyses of the city of Beijing provide first-hand historical information for today's scholars in the study of Beijing's history.

1685年法国国王路易十四派遣了第一批“国王数学家”前往中国,李明 ( Louis Lecomte) 是五位到达北京的法国耶稣会士之一,并在1688年到达后受到康熙皇帝召见,中法两国间从此开启了近百年的早期的文化交流。李明是十七世纪末最早深入中国各地考察、游历、传教,并对他所见所闻作进行详尽分析描述的法国人。纵观他笔下的北京城的描述,我们不难发现,作者始终抱着强烈的好奇心,以亲眼探索北京城的姿态审视异国都城里能够看到的一切,他的描写宛若一幅康熙年间北京城写实的画面。李明对北京古老的历史,独特的建筑风格,以及繁荣的商业氛围等都作了比较客观的描述,这为“启蒙时代”的法国读者传递了比较翔实的信息。尽管李明在中国停留的时间很短暂,但是回到法国后出版的十四封长信已经对中国社会进行了颇为详细的介绍,而且他分析的内容不但全面详细,而且不少内容是对当时的中国和法国的情况进行的文化和历史的对比。由于“礼仪之争”的原因,他只好奉命回到法国解释有关中国传教的情况,1696年他在巴黎出版了在中国期间给法国上层人士的十四封书信,取名为《中国近况新志》 (Les Nouveaux Mémoires de l’état présent de la Chine)。本文着重研究李明关于北京城特点的分析和描述,特别是他对中、法城市区别的对比。李明对北京城的观察和分析为当今学者的北京历史研究提供了第一手真实的史料。

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Zhimin Bai. Premiers échanges culturels Chine-France : la ville de Pékin décrite par les "Mathématicien du roi". 国际比较文学, 2024, 7 (2), pp.41-57. ⟨hal-05463906⟩
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