The Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database) is a research database of primary and secondary sources concerning the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (from 1582 to ca. 1840). The cultural contacts comprise documents in the various fields of cultural interaction: religion, philosophy, science, art, but the collection began with a focus on Christianity in China.
The database is divided into “primary” and “secondary” sources. The primary sources are ca. 1.050 Chinese and ca. 4.000 European documents dating from roughly the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Chinese sources include printed books, manuscripts, pamphlets and maps; European sources are so far only printed documents (printed books, chapters in books, etc.). There are over 8.000 secondary sources, which, if applicable, are linked to the primary sources. Searches can be made in the whole database, or in the primary or secondary sources separately. As much as possible the data are linked to the original sources, in so far these appear on public websites (notice that sometimes the address changes and the link is interrupted).
University of Leuven
