The collected works by the Ming founding emperor is a magnet for historians' attention, as they are important primary sources to understand Ming Taizu and his times, especially when almost all other records of his rule had been banned...
While recent studies of the Jesuit Pierre-Martial Cibot (1727-80) have focused on his scientific works of Chinese botany and medical science, I would prefer to draw scholarly attention to his rarely investigated works on the translati...