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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled The Question of Hu about Jonathan, Chinese, Gate with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction.
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conversations.value: Jonathan the author's eleven storys on Chinese history include The Gate of Heavenly Peace , Treason by the Book , and The Death of Woman Wang. His awards include a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellowship. He teaches at Yale University.
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conversations.value: Give me the first paragraph for this story.
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conversations.value: The Question of Hu
  This is Foucquet's work, this is his passion—to make all these things clear, to unravel all the hidden meanings in the Chinese past. "In such an enterprise," writes Foucquet, "the act of labor becomes sweet, and even the harshest pains become in some way delicious."
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conversations.value: Give me another paragraph.
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conversations.value: Foucquet makes reservations for two on the stagecoach leaving for Lyons on 12 April, and pays the advance. He hurries to find Hu and gives him the news.
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.
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conversations.value: BAV, Borg Lat 523. Collection "Borgia Latino," number 523. Folio pp. 84–85 contains Foucquet's "Breve Diario" of events in April-June 1723.
  BL, Add Mss 20583A. British Library, London, Store Street Depository. "Catalogue des livres Chinois apportés de la Chine par le père Foucquet Jésuite en l'année 1722," 48 pp., folio pp. 1–25.
  BL, Add Mss 26816. British Library, London, folio pp. 144–150, "Lettre du P. Foucquet au P. de Goville Supérieur des Jésuites François à Canton, le 4 Août 1721." Folio pp. 151–186, Foucquet to Hervieu, Canton, 1 June 1721. Folio pp. 189–206V, Foucquet reply to Goville and Goville's enclosure ref. Foucquet's hostility to Jesuits.
  Foucquet, Jean-François. "Risposte date dal. P. Gio-Francesco Fouquet [sic] della Compagnia di Giesu," Propaganda Fidei, Monday, 16 August 1723, BL, Add MSS 26817, folio pp. 179–189.