China through European eyes : 800 years of cultural and intellectual encounter / Kerry Brown and Gemma Chenger Deng, King's College London, UK.
| Author/creator |
Brown, Kerry, 1967- author. |
| Other author/creator | Deng, Gemma Chenger, author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | London ; Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific, [2022] |
| Description | xxxii, 237 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | In the Khan's palaces : Marco Polo -- The China of the imagination : Samuel Purchas -- Jesuitical encounters : Matteo Ricci -- Confucian civility : Gottfried Leibniz -- Admiring the east : Voltaire -- Despotic empire : Montesquieu -- The Macartney expedition, 1792-1794 : John Barrow -- Historic dialectics : Georg Hegel -- Imperial sympathy : Karl Marx -- Encounters in the edges : ̐uEvariste R̐uegis Huc -- What do Chinese believe? : Max Weber -- Problematising China : Bertrand Russell -- Chinese wisdom for modern Europeans : Carl Jung -- Socialist solidarity : Simone de Beauvoir -- Feminine China : Julia Kristeva -- Fellow traveller : Roland Barthes. |
| Abstract | "China Through European Eyes provides a reader's perspective on the conceptualisation of China by Europeans over the last 800 years. With annotated excerpts of their key China related writings by influential figures such as Voltaire, Matteo Ricci, Leibniz, Montesquieu, Marx, Weber, Hegel, Barthes and Kristeva, this collection brings together the visions and ideas of individuals who had a unique impact upon European culture. The views within range wildly as the authors wrestle with what sense to make of China's cultural and social difference to their lives in the West, conceptualising China as a place of threat, otherness, exoticism, but also inspiration. This important selection allows for comparison of perspectives across different times in Europe, allowing readers to map out continuities and evolutions of attitudes towards China. It shows that contemporary European attitudes towards China have deep roots. With an extensive introduction, full bibliography and widespread annotations on original texts, this book will be of interest to anyone engaged with the role of China in the world today, particularly those interested in how the crucial relationship between China and Europe developed over time"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-225) and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021047019 |
| ISBN | 9781800610972 |
| ISBN | 1800610971 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook other) |
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