- Hardcover: 250 pages
- Publisher: Stanford University Press (31 Jan 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0804732035
- ISBN-13: 978-0804732031
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.4 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,248,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From the first successful Jesuit mission in 1583 until the disastrous failure of the British trade embassy in 1816, China's cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs and social critics. The direct influences on European culture were many and profound, ranging from Chinese teahouses in European palace gardens to adaptations of Chinese plays for the popular stage, from calls for the restructuring of the civil service on the model of Chinese meritocracy to the espousal of Confucian precepts in the moral education of children. More significant than even such readily visible gestures of imitation and appropriation, however, were the interpretive strategies that accompanied them: the processes by which Europeans translated the unfamiliar and often enigmatic artifacts of Chinese culture into familiar forms of meaning, thus engaging them in the emergent discourses of European modernity.
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Now the other side please, 11 Oct 2007
By L. Crouzen "lorretje" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
Four centuries of meetings between far-east and west describes Porter in this book in a very slow sort of English. His style is academic, his sentences long and complicated with a lot of syntactical constructions so to say. For me as a notnativereader, but used to Charles Darwin in his Correspondence, was it sometimes very difficult to follow. Nevertheless I hope David Porter will visit China and writes the same story from the Chinese point of view. What were the Zhongguoren of the current Qing-dynasty thinking while meeting with the Barbarians form the west? Are there written reports in Chinese about their discussions and cultural exchanges?
laur (lawrence) crouzen
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