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UNINA9910552757203321 |
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Autore |
Purdy Daniel L. |
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Titolo |
Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe / / Daniel Leonhard Purdy |
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Cornell University Press, 2021 |
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Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021 |
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©2021 |
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ISBN |
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9781501759734 |
1501759736 |
9781501759765 |
1501759760 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource) |
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Collana |
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Signale: modern German letters, cultures, and thought |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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German literature - Chinese influences |
Sympathy - Europe - History |
Orientalism - Europe - History |
Civilization, Western - Chinese influences |
China Intellectual life |
Europe Intellectual life |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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"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 |
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