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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552757203321

Autore

Purdy Daniel L.

Titolo

Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe / / Daniel Leonhard Purdy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2021

Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

9781501759734

1501759736

9781501759765

1501759760

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Collana

Signale: modern German letters, cultures, and thought

Disciplina

909/.09821

Soggetti

German literature - Chinese influences

Sympathy - Europe - History

Orientalism - Europe - History

Civilization, Western - Chinese influences

China Intellectual life

Europe Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: sympathy and orientalism -- Marco Polo's fabulous imperial connections -- Jesuit channels between Europe and Asia -- The genealogy of compassionate reading -- News of the Ming dynasty's collapse -- Vondel's tragic Chinese emperor -- Wieland's secret history of cosmopolitanism -- Adam Smith and the Chinese earthquake -- Goethe reads the Jesuits -- Weimar pairings: idealism and Buddhism, Kant and the Jesuits -- World literature and Goethe's Chinese poetry.

Sommario/riassunto

"Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection from Baroque-era missionary reports that accommodated



Christianity with Confucianism to Goethe's concept of world literature, bridged by Enlightenment debates over cosmopolitanism and sympathy."--