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Why China did not have a Renaissance - and why that matters - An interdisciplinary Dialogue (Paperback)
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Why China did not have a Renaissance - and why that matters - An interdisciplinary Dialogue (Paperback)
Series: Critical Readings in Global Intellectual History
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Concepts of historical progress or decline and the idea of a cycle
of historical movement have existed in many civilizations. In spite
of claims that they be transnational or even universal,
periodization schemes invariably reveal specific social and
cultural predispositions. Our dialogue, which brings together a
Sinologist and a scholar of early modern History in Europe,
considers periodization as a historical phenomenon, studying the
case of the "Renaissance." Understood in the tradition of J.
Burckhardt, who referred back to ideas voiced by the humanists of
the 14th and 15th centuries, and focusing on the particularities of
humanist dialogue which informed the making of the "Renaissance" in
Italy, our discussion highlights elements that distinguish it from
other movements that have proclaimed themselves as
"r/Renaissances," studying, in particular, the Chinese Renaissance
in the early 20th century. While disagreeing on several fundamental
issues, we suggest that interdisciplinary and interregional
dialogue is a format useful to addressing some of the more
far-reaching questions in global history, e.g. whether and when a
periodization scheme such as "Renaissance" can fruitfully be
applied to describe non-European experiences.
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