Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.

Responsive image


Joachim Bouvet

Joachim Bouvet
Plate from Joachim Bouvet's Etat présent de la Chine (1697)
Chinese白晋 or 白進
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBái Jìn
Wade–GilesPái Chìn
IPA[pǎɪ tɕîn]
Courtesy name
Chinese明远
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinMíng Yuǎn
Wade–GilesMíng Yüǎn
Yale RomanizationMíng Ywǎn

Joachim Bouvet (Chinese: 白晋 or 白進, courtesy name: 明远) (July 18, 1656, in Le Mans – June 28, 1730, in Peking) was a French Jesuit who worked in China, and the leading member of the Figurist movement.


Previous Page Next Page