The intercultural weaving of historical texts : : Chinese and European stories about Emperor Ku and his concubines / / by Nicolas Standaert.

The European view on history was shaken to its foundations when missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries discovered that Chinese history was older than European and Biblical history. With an analysis of the Chinese, Manchu and European sources on ancient Chinese history, this essay p...

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Superior document:Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography, Volume 9
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Leiden series in comparative historiography ; Volume 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (377 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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