The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts - Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines

In The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts Nicolas Standaert analyses an early case of "intercultural historiography," in which various Chinese views on marvellous births are interwoven with their European interpretations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

About the author

Nicolas Standaert (Ph.D. Leiden University, 1984) is Professor of Sinology at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He has published widely on Sino-European cultural contacts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Nicolas Standaert
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2016
• EAN: 9789004316157
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31615-7
• No. of pages: 378
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 663 g
• Series: Leiden Comparative Historiogra
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations