The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

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The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

Name: The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds
ISBN: 9780393027471

Jonathan D. Spence

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China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explores how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction of China and the mighty Khan, Kublai, in the 1270s to the China sightings of three twentieth-century writers of acknowledged genius-Kafka, Borges, and Calvino-Spence conveys Western thought on China through a remarkable array of expression. Peopling Spence's account are Iberian adventurers, Enlightenment thinkers, spinners of the dreamy cult of Chinoiserie, and American observers such as Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Ezra Pound, and Eugene O'Neill. Taken together, these China sightings tell us as much about the self-image of the West as about China.

Jonathan D. Spence (1936—2021) was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught for more than forty years. He was awarded MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. "The Search for Modern China" won the Lionel Gelber Award and the Kiriyama Book Prize.

Kategori:

History - Asian History

Tahun:

1998

Penerbit:

W W Norton & Co Inc

Bahasa:

english

Halaman:

310

ISBN 10:

0393027473