1.	NAME OF CD-ROM DATABASE	Matteo Ricci Multimedia CD
2.	DATE OF 1st ISSUE	1995
3.	ISSUEING AGENCY	Chinese Didactics Technologies (CDT) Group of University Paris 7
4.	DISTRIBUTION	French CD-ROM Megastore and other CD-ROM distributors; Taipei, Taiwan Fax: 008862 7193040
6.	TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS	IBM compat. with Windows; Macintosh
9.	NUMBER OF CDs	one
10.	PRICE	275 Fr. (about 46 USD)
11.	SHORT DESCRIPTION	I have not seen this product. From the French description and the article published in the conference volume on "Modernization of publishing and editing Chinese ancient texts" (Beijing, July 22-24, 1995) it is clearly a "first aid" and introduction into Chinese writing and Chinese characters. As it was developed by the Chinese Didactics Technologies Group of University Paris 7 the interface and the handbook are in French. The programm's purpose is to establish an "approach to the Chinese characters that would fully exploit in terms of animation the highly semantical and historical content of pictograms." (Beijing conference vol., Abstract p. 310).