Encountering China
Subtitle: early modern European responses
By: edited by Rachana Sachdev and Qingjun Li
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa; Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781611484380; 9781611484823; 9781611484397
Subjects: History; Description and travel; Travelers' writings, European; European influences; European literature; Early works to 1800; Chinese literature; European Foreign public opinion; Chinese influences; Europeans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: European responses to child abandonment, sale of children and social welfare policies in Ming China / Rachana Sachdev; title: Of golden lilies and gentlewomen : constructions of Chinese women in early modern European travel narratives / Qingjun Li; title: Earlier moderns : the novel form as national development in China and Europe / Daniel Dooghan; title: "A strong resemblance" : Samuel Richardson, Chinese talent-beauty novels, and a secret origin of "world literature" / Ning Ma; title: 'Magicians, enchanters, and professional crooks' : early modern understandings of Daoism / Ronnie Littlejohn; title: Buddhism and idolatry / Terry Logan Mazurak.