Early Chinese Studies in Holland

Abstract

EARLY CHINESE STUDIES IN HOLLAND BY J. J. L. DUYVENDAK Much may be added to the brief preliminary sketch which I wrote in connection with the XVIIItt' Congress of Orientalists held at Leyden in The new knowledge of China which in the course of the 17th century came to Europe through the activities of navigators, travellers and missionaries did not fail to awaken a certain amount of interest among the academic scholars of the day. Not only did theologians become deeply interested, especially as the controversy on the Rites developed, but oriental scholarship, then often connected with mathematics and astronomy,