Foreign devils and philosophers : cultural encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and other Europeans, 1590-1800

Foreign devils and philosophers : cultural encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and other Europeans, 1590-1800 /

What was the cultural impact of early meetings between Chinese and Europeans? This book explores visual, literary, and scholarly representations of the Celestial Empire and Western countries against the backdrop of actual encounters. Based on rare Chinese and, correspondingly, European (especially D...

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Other Authors: Weststeijn, Thijs (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series:East and West (Leiden, Netherlands) ; .6.
Subjects:
East and West.
Ethnicity.
Manners and customs.
Cultural Characteristics
China > Civilization > European influences.
Europe > Civilization > Chinese influences.
China > Civilization > Dutch influences.
Netherlands > Civilization > Chinese influences.
China > Relations > Europe.
Europe > Relations > China.
China > Relations > Netherlands.
Netherlands > Relations > China.
China.
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. China, the Netherlands, Europe: Images, Interactions, Institutions and the Ideal of Global Cultural History / Thijs Weststeijn
  • 2. The Richest Country in the World: Dutch Knowledge of China and Cathay and How to Get There in the 1590s / Djoeke van Netten
  • 3. Red-Haired Barbarians: The Dongxi Yangkao (1617) and its Portrayal of the Dutch in China / Lennert Gesterkamp
  • 4. The Tartars in European Missionary Writings of the Seventeenth Century / Dong Shaoxin
  • 5. Just Like Zhou: Chinese Visitors to the Netherlands (1597-1705) and Their Cultural Representation / Thijs Weststeijn
  • 6. Chinese Petitions to the Dutch East India Company: Gambling on Formosa / Joris van den Tol
  • 7. The "Unhappie Ruines" of Princess Mary ii's Lacquer Screen: Sir Constantijn Huygens's Plea to Preserve a Chinese Artefact, 1685-1686 / Willemijn van Noord
  • 8. A Chinese Philosopher in European Dress: The Review of the First Latin Translation of Confucius (1687) in the Philosophical Transactions and Its Preoccupation with Chinese Chronology / Trude Dijkstra
  • 9. The Relational Network of Court Jesuits in Local Provinces: The Example of Tomás Pereira (1689-1690) / Chen Yufang
  • 10. Jesuit Libraries in Beijing and China in the Perspective of the Communication between Europe and China in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Noël Golvers
  • 11. Curiosity and Authority: Images of Europeans at the Qing Court during the Kangxi and Yongzheng Reigns / Sun Jing
  • 12. The Origin of the Dutch Embassy to China in 1794 / Cai Xiangyu.

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