Embassies to China  [electronic resource] : Diplomacy and Cultural Encounters Before the Opium Wars /
Keevak, Michael.author.
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.
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 history.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Languages.
Language and languages.
China-History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Asian Languages.
History of China.