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. ©2016 |
| 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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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Introduction to Part 1
- 1 Comprehensive Histories in Late Ming and Early Qing and the Genealogy of the Gangjian 綱鑑 Texts
- 2 Jesuit Accounts of Chinese History and Chronology and Their Chinese Sources
- Introduction to Part 2
- 3 Chinese Interpretations of Marvellous Births
- 4 Jesuit Interpretations of Marvellous Births
- Postface
- Bibliography
- Index.