چىن نامه /‪‪‪‪ / تألىف ماتىو رىچى ؛ ترجمه از متن لاتىن، محمد زمان ؛ مقدمه، تصحىح، توضىح و مقابله با ترجمه هاى کهن چىنى، انگلىسى و ايتالىاىى از، لو جىن ؛ پىشگفتار مظفر بختىار.‪‪‪‪Chīn-nāma / / by Matteo Ricci ; (Edited by) Lu Jin, Muẓaffar Bakhtīyār.

• Superior document: Mīrās̲-i Maktūb ; Tārīkh va jughrāfiyā ; 174. 34
• VerfasserIn: Ricci, Matteo,
• TeilnehmendeR: Zamān, Muḥammad,; Bakhtīyār, Muẓaffar,; محمد زمان،‪‪‪‪ 18th cent.‪ / Jin, Lu,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, [2019]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English; Persian; Latin
• Series: Mīrās̲-i Maktūb ; Tārīkh va jughrāfiyā ; 174. 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-166) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004405003
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Matteo Ricci ; (Edited by) Lu Jin, Muẓaffar Bakhtīyār.

Born in Macerata, Italy, in 1552, Matteo Ricci was a Catholic priest who was sent to the Jesuit representation to Macau in 1582. His assignment was to travel on to mainland China and seek to establish the first permanent Jesuit mission there. Ricci arrived in China in 1583, never to leave it again. He died there in 1610. Fluent in Chinese, he was very succesful, on good terms with people that mattered, much appreciated as a carthographer and astronomer, and given free access to the Forbidden City, which was quite exceptional. Ricci's account of his mission to China, called De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas , was published posthumously in 1615. The present work is a Persian translation of the book's first fascicle made in India by a Persian convert to Christianity from the seventeenth century. The translation is significant in that it was made at the suggestion of a Jesuit priest, most likely from missionary ambitions.