02834nam 22006015 450 991025476330332120230811005059.09789811039720981103972010.1007/978-981-10-3972-0(CKB)3710000001411804(DE-He213)978-981-10-3972-0(MiAaPQ)EBC4884022(Perlego)3497922(EXLCZ)99371000000141180420170622d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEmbassies to China Diplomacy and Cultural Encounters Before the Opium Wars /by Michael Keevak1st ed. 2017.Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (X, 162 p. 14 illus.) 9789811039713 9811039712 Introduction: Embassies and Failures -- Making "Peace" with the East -- Portugal and "Empire" -- Holland and "Trade" -- The Pope's "Religion" -- Russia and "Diplomacy" -- Epilogue: "Embassies" to Europe.This text is a timely and wide-ranging study providing essential background to the development of global modernity through the European encounter with China. Considering differing notions of peace, empire, trade, religion, and diplomacy as touchstones in the relations between China and Europe on mutuality, the book examines five encounters with France, Portugal, Holland, the pope, and Russia between 1248 and 1720, and reflects on concepts that the West took for granted but which did not successfully cross over into the Chinese world. This cutting edge text provides key insights into the cultural and political conflict which lay at the heart of early Chinese-European relations, as the West's understanding of the truth and appropriateness of its cultural norms was confronted by China's norms and beliefs.World historyEthnologyCultureAsiaLanguagesChinaHistoryWorld History, Global and Transnational HistoryRegional Cultural StudiesAsian LanguagesHistory of ChinaWorld history.Ethnology.Culture.AsiaLanguages.ChinaHistory.World History, Global and Transnational History.Regional Cultural Studies.Asian Languages.History of China.909Keevak Michaelauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut994040BOOK9910254763303321Embassies to China2276599UNINA