ENCOUNTERING CHINA - Early Modern European Responses

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.

List of contents

Contents

Introduction
by Rachana Sachdev

Part 1

European Responses to Child Abandonment, Sale of Children and Social Welfare Policies in Ming China
by Rachana Sachdev

Of Golden Lilies and Gentlewomen: Constructions of Chinese Women in Early Modern European Travel Narratives
by Qingjun Li

Part 2

Earlier Moderns: The Novel Form as National Development in China and Europe
By Daniel Dooghan

"A Strong Resemblance": Samuel Richardson, Chinese Talent-Beauty Novels, and a Secret Origin of "World Literature"
By Ning Ma

Part 3

"'Magicians, Enchanters, and Professional Crooks': Early Modern Understandings of Daoism"
By Ronnie Littlejohn

Buddhism and Idolatry
By Terry Logan Mazurak

Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by Rachana Sachdev and Qinjun Li

Product details

• Assisted by: Qinjun Li (Editor), Rachana Sachdev (Editor)
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2012
• EAN: 9781611484823
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-482-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 298 g
• Series: Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories