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PIH (Irene). LE PERE Gabriel de Magalhães: un jesuite Portugais en Chine au XVII siecle. Paris. 1979. - PIH (Irene) LE PERE Gabriel de Magalhães: un jesuite Portugais en Chine au XVII siecle . Paris: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian- centro Cultural Português, 1979. XX, 386 pp.; 255 mm. A seminal study on the life and work of Father Gabriel de Magalhães (1609-1677), a Portuguese Jesuit who departed for the East in 1634 and remained in China until his death, having had direct contact with the imperial court in Beijing. His most unique experience stems from his time living, between 1644 and 1647, with the rebel Chang Hsien-chung in Sichuan, leaving behind the only direct and continuous testimony from a European about the personality and the brief, bloody rule of this insurgent, prior to the 19th century. His impressions of Beijing, its inhabitants, customs, and court life, written in the form of a report, were later published posthumously, by order of Cardinal d'Estrées, under the title Nouvelle Relation de la Chine (Paris, 1682). This volume, authored by Irene Pih, constitutes the most complete monographic study on Magellan and his work, integrated into the ”Medieval and Modern Culture” collection of the Portuguese Cultural Center of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It is an indispensable reference work for the study of Portuguese Jesuit missions in 17th-century China and Luso-Chinese cultural relations of the period. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate