Joseph-Marie Amiot has been played on NTS shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, with Premier Divertissement Chinois : first played on 9 March 2020.

Joseph Marie Amiot was born at Toulon. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to China. He soon won the confidence of the Qianlong Emperor and spent the remainder of his life at Beijing. He was a correspondent of the Académie des Sciences, official translator of Western languages for Emperor Qianlong, and the spiritual leader of the French mission in Peking. He died in Peking in 1793. His Manchu dictionary Dictionnaire…