Chapter Afterword. Notes on Rereading and Re-enacting “China”

In Europe, the historical representation and narration of China and the Orient more in general from an outsider’s point of view has conjured up an exotic and a-historical image of a poetical, mystical and refined civilization. In Walpole’s Britain, for example, “the argument from the Chinese”—namely...

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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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246 |a Chapter Unsheathing the Katana. The Long Fortune of the First Two Japanese Embassies in Italy 
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