Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste). Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise. A La Haye: Chez Henri Scheurleer, 1736.
杜赫德《中華帝國及中華韃靼地理、歷史、編年、政治與自然環境的記述》
A La Haye：Chez Henri Scheurleer，1736

Du Halde’s magnum opus is one of the most influential accounts of China of the early Enlightenment in the form of a vast four-volume compendium of Jesuit missionary knowledge about China. It gives encyclopedic coverage of all aspects of Chinese civilization: the emperors and the government; the military and police institutions; agriculture and handicrafts; Chinese philosophy and religion; science and medicine; money and commerce, etc. There are also various striking images, including maps and the Great Wall. This four-volume work made Jesuit Sinological knowledge available to European audience at a hitherto unseen level of detail.

杜赫德此一巨著是啟蒙運動早期最具影響的漢學著作之一。此書以四卷綱目巨著的形式呈現，囊括耶穌會所了解的各類中國知識，包括皇帝和政府、軍隊和警察機構、農業和手工業、中國哲學和宗教、科學和醫學，以及貨幣和商業等。此外還有各種引人注目的圖像，包括地圖和長城等。透過這部作品，歐洲讀者可以了解當中詳盡至極的耶穌會漢學知識。