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Encountering China - Early Modern European Responses (Hardcover)
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Encountering China - Early Modern European Responses (Hardcover)
Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures
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Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern
travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of
the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges,
to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, though they
were also critical of some local traditions and practices.
Contributors engage critically with travelogues, treating them not
just as occasional sources of historical information but as
primary, literary texts deeply revelatory of the world they
describe. Contributors reach back to the earliest European writings
available on China in an effort to broaden and nuance our
understanding of European contact with the Middle Kingdom in the
early modern period. While the primary focus of these essays is the
external gaze - European sources about China - contributors also
tease out aspects of the Chinese world-view of the time, thus
generating a conversation between Chinese literary and historical
texts and European ones.
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