《传教士与法国早期汉学》是汇集我父亲阎宗临在1937年至1943年间发表的关于传教士与中西文化交流的论文而编成的。这些论文的内容,大致可分为三个部分:一是传教士与法国早期汉学,以及中国对法国十八世纪的影响;二是清初康熙、雍正、乾隆三朝传教士的活动,以及清廷与罗马教廷的 The missionaries and early French Sinology compiled a collection of papers published by my father Yan Zonglin between 1937 and 1943 on the missionaries and the exchange of Chinese and Western cultures. The contents of these essays can be roughly divided into three parts: one is the missionaries and the early French Sinology, and China’s influence on France in the 18th century; the other is the activities of the missionaries of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Dynasties in the early Qing Dynasty, With the Holy See