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Encountering China
Early Modern European Responses
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2012
Summary
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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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-61148-438-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-61148-439-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
220
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 1: European Responses to Child Abandonment, Sale of Children, and Social Welfare Policies in Ming China No access
Chapter 2: Of Golden Lilies and Gentlewomen: Constructions of Chinese Women in Early Modern European Travel Narratives No access
Chapter 3:Earlier Moderns: The Novel Formas National Development in China and Europe No access
Chapter 4:“A Strong Resemblance”: Samuel Richardson, Chinese Talent-Beauty Novels, and a Secret Origin of “World Literat ure” No access
Chapter: 5 “Magicians, Enchanters, and Professional Crooks”: Early Modern Understandings of Daoism No access
