Embassies to China (eBook)
X, 162 Seiten
Springer Singapore (Verlag)
978-981-10-3972-0 (ISBN)
This text is a timely and wide-ranging study providing essential background to the development of global modernity through the European encounter with China. Considering differing notions of peace, empire, trade, religion, and diplomacy as touchstones in the relations between China and Europe on mutuality, the book examines five encounters with France, Portugal, Holland, the pope, and Russia between 1248 and 1720, and reflects on concepts that the West took for granted but which did not successfully cross over into the Chinese world. This cutting edge text provides key insights into the cultural and political conflict which lay at the heart of early Chinese-European relations, as the West's understanding of the truth and appropriateness of its cultural norms was confronted by China's norms and beliefs.
Michael Keevak is Professor of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University, where he has taught since 1993. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (2011), winner of the Academia Sinica Book Award in Humanities and Social Sciences in 2013.
This text is a timely and wide-ranging study providing essential background to the development of global modernity through the European encounter with China. Considering differing notions of peace, empire, trade, religion, and diplomacy as touchstones in the relations between China and Europe on mutuality, the book examines five encounters with France, Portugal, Holland, the pope, and Russia between 1248 and 1720, and reflects on concepts that the West took for granted but which did not successfully cross over into the Chinese world. This cutting edge text provides key insights into the cultural and political conflict which lay at the heart of early Chinese-European relations, as the West's understanding of the truth and appropriateness of its cultural norms was confronted by China's norms and beliefs.
Michael Keevak is Professor of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University, where he has taught since 1993. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (2011), winner of the Academia Sinica Book Award in Humanities and Social Sciences in 2013.
Introduction: Embassies and Failures.- Making "Peace" with the East.- Portugal and "Empire".- Holland and "Trade".- The Pope's "Religion".- Russia and "Diplomacy".- Epilogue: "Embassies" to Europe.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.6.2017 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | X, 162 p. 14 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Singapore |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | China History from 1500 to 1750 • Chinese rites and ceremonies • Christianity in China • Comparative history of China and the West • Early modern Asian studies • Embassies to premodern China • Empire and colonialism • Free Trade Agreements • Premodern Chinese-European relations • Sino-Russian trade relations |
| ISBN-10 | 981-10-3972-0 / 9811039720 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-981-10-3972-0 / 9789811039720 |
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