An Account of the Entry of the Catholic Religion into Sichuan

An Account of the Entry of the Catholic Religion into Sichuan,[a] also referred to as Mission to Sichuan, is a 1918 history book edited by Paris Foreign Missions Society missionary François-Marie-Joseph Gourdon in Chinese, and published by the Imprimerie de la Sainte-Famille[b] in the city of Chongqing,[c][1][2] with the approval of Célestin Chouvellon [fr], Apostolic Vicar of Eastern Szechwan.

The first edition contains 76 pages, published in Chongqing by the Imprimerie de la Sainte-Famille, aimed at Catholics in east Sichuan, hence is limited to only 2000 copies.

In 1904, he co-founded the bimonthly newspaper La Vérité [zh] with a fellow missionary Henri Louis (1870–1950),[3] which became weekly the following year and had two thousand subscribers.

[8] An Account was edited and noted by Gourdon based on a hand-copy manuscript that he received from a Jesuit in Shanghai,[1] which contains detailed accounts of the first Catholic mission in Sichuan carried out by Lodovico Buglio and Gabriel de Magalhães, and allegedly being Relação das tyranias obradas por Canghien Chungo famoso ladrão da China em o anno de 1651 authored by the latter.

[8] On NetEase, a review says: 'The book provides valuable first-hand historical materials for the study of Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi regime'.