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Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 16 Sep 2023 02:22:48
Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

Daniel Leonhard Purdy, "Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe "
English | ISBN: 1501759736 | 2021 | 420 pages | PDF | 6 MB

Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans―German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular―identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established intellectual regimes that framed China as being fundamentally similar to Europe.
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