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Chinese Influences or Images? Fluctuating Histories of How Enlightenment Europe Read China

Chinese Influences or Images? Fluctuating Histories of How Enlightenment Europe Read China

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Chinese Influences or Images? Fluctuating Histories of How Enlightenment Europe Read China

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Chinese Influences or Images? Fluctuating Histories of How Enlightenment Europe Read China

Publisher

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press

Journal title

Journal of world history, 2013-09, Vol.24 (3), p.623-660

Language

English

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Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press

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Contents

This historiographical survey reveals major fluctuations in twentieth-century studies of how early modern Europe received descriptions of China by travelers and missionaries. The article argues that historians working on the cultural history of this reception have alternated between an overall understanding of this interregional entanglement as eit...

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Chinese Influences or Images? Fluctuating Histories of How Enlightenment Europe Read China

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1566375101

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1566375101

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ISSN

1045-6007,1527-8050

E-ISSN

1527-8050

DOI

10.1353/jwh.2013.0076

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