Chinese Sympathies : : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe / / Daniel Leonhard Purdy.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (420 p.) :; 3 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sympathy and Orientalism
- 1 Marco Polo’s Fabulous Imperial Connections
- 2 Jesuit Channels between Europe and Asia
- 3 A Genealogy of Cosmopolitan Reading
- 4 News of the Ming Dynasty’s Collapse
- 5 Vondel’s Tragic Chinese Emperor
- 6 Wieland’s Secret History of Cosmopolitanism
- 7 Adam Smith and the Chinese Earthquake
- 8 Goethe Reads the Jesuits
- 9 Chinese-German Pairings
- 10 World Literature and Goethe’s Chinese Poetry
- Bibliography
- Index