Opusculum de sectis apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses = A small treatise on the sects among the Chinese and Tonkinese : a study of religion in China and North Vietnam in the eighteenth century : a small tr

This 1750 text, written by a Catholic missionary in Tonkin, is the earliest known systematic first-hand account of Vietnamese religious practice, including chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism, the worship of spirits, magicians, fortune tellers and diviners, and Christianity in the region. It was recently discovered in a Paris archive and will be of interest to a broad array of scholars. Includes a facsimile of the original manuscript.