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Bellum Tartaricum Or The Conquest Of The Great And Most Renowned Empire Of China By The Invasion Of The Tartars
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Book Synopsis Bellum Tartaricum, Or the Conquest of the Great and Most Renowned Empire of China by the Invasion of the Tartars ... by : Martino Martini
Download or read book Bellum Tartaricum, Or the Conquest of the Great and Most Renowned Empire of China by the Invasion of the Tartars ... written by Martino Martini and published by . This book was released on 1654 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bellum Tartaricum, Or The Conquest of the Great and Most Renowned Empire of China by the Invasion of the Tartars ... by : Martino Martini
Download or read book Bellum Tartaricum, Or The Conquest of the Great and Most Renowned Empire of China by the Invasion of the Tartars ... written by Martino Martini and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bellum Tartaricum. Or The Conquest of the Great and Most Renovvned Empire of China, by the Invasion of the Tartars ... by : Martino Martini
Download or read book Bellum Tartaricum. Or The Conquest of the Great and Most Renovvned Empire of China, by the Invasion of the Tartars ... written by Martino Martini and published by . This book was released on 1655 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Representing China on the Historical London Stage by : Dongshin Chang
Download or read book Representing China on the Historical London Stage written by Dongshin Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century—which corresponds with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China’s last monarchy. The examples show that during this historical period, the stage representations of the country were influenced in turn by Jesuit writings on China, Britain’s expanding material interest in China, the presence of British imperial power in Asia, and the establishment of diasporic Chinese communities abroad. While finding that many of these works may be read as gendered and feminized, Chang emphasizes that the Jesuits’ depiction of China as a country of high culture and in perennial conflict with the Tartars gradually lost prominence in dramatic imaginations to depictions of China’s material and visual attractions. Central to the book’s argument is that the stage representations of China were inherently intercultural and open to new influences, manifested by the evolving combinations of Chinese and English (British) traits. Through the dramatization of the Chinese Other, the representations questioned, satirized, and put in sharp relief the ontological and epistemological bases of the English (British) Self.
Book Synopsis Dominion Undeserved by : Eric B. Song
Download or read book Dominion Undeserved written by Eric B. Song and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That the writings of John Milton continue to provoke study and analysis centuries after his lifetime speaks no doubt to his literary greatness but also to the many ways in which his art both engaged and transcended the political and theological tensions of his age. In Dominion Undeserved, Eric B. Song offers a brilliant reading of Milton's major writings, finding in them a fundamental impasse that explains their creative power. According to Song, a divided view of creation governs Milton's related systems of cosmology, theology, art, and history. For Milton, any coherent entity-a nation, a poem, or even the new world-must be carved out of and guarded against an original unruliness. Despite being sanctioned by God, however, this agonistic mode of creation proves ineffective because it continues to manifest internal rifts that it can never fully overcome. This dilemma is especially pronounced in Milton's later writings, including Paradise Lost, where all forms of creativity must strive against the fact that chaos precedes order and that disruptive forces will continue to reemerge, seemingly without end. Song explores the many ways in which Milton transforms an intractable problem into the grounds for incisive commentary and politically charged artistry. This argument brings into focus topics ranging from Milton's recurring allusions to the Eastern Tartars, the way Milton engages with country house poetry and colonialist discourses in Paradise Lost, and the lasting relevance of Anglo-Irish affairs for his late writings. Song concludes with a new reading of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes in which he shows how Milton's integration of conflicting elements forms the heart of his literary archive and confers urgency upon his message even as it reaches its future readers.
Book Synopsis Chinese Central Asia by : Henry Lansdell
Download or read book Chinese Central Asia written by Henry Lansdell and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690–1770 by : Eun Kyung Min
Download or read book China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690–1770 written by Eun Kyung Min and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that eighteenth-century literature defined itself as 'English' and 'modern' by engaging with debates about Chinese history and culture.
Book Synopsis Overcoming Ptolemy by : Geoffrey C. Gunn
Download or read book Overcoming Ptolemy written by Geoffrey C. Gunn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies on global metageography are enjoying a revival, and in no way is this better referenced than against the geo-world system bequeathed by Claudius Ptolemy almost two thousand years ago. This is all the more important when we consider the longevity of the Ptolemaic construct through and beyond the European age of discovery allowing as well for its eventual revision or refinement. Innovations in navigational science, cartographic representations, and textual description are all called upon to illustrate this theme. With its focus upon the macro-region termed India Extra Gangem, literally the space between India and China, the book unfolds a fourfold agenda. First, it explains the Ptolemaic world system back to classical points of reference as well as to its reception in late medieval Europe from Arabic sources. Second, it tracks the erosion of the Ptolemaic template especially in the light of new empirical data entering Europe from early travel accounts as well as the first voyages of discovery. Third, through selected examples, as with India, Southeast Asia, and China, it seeks to expose textual and cartographic adjustments to the classical models flowing from the scientific revolution.Fourth, through an examination of Jesuit astronomical observations conducted at various points in Asia, it demonstrates how Eurasia was actually measured and sized with respect to its true longitudinal coordinates such had deluded Columbus and even succeeding generations. In short, this work problematizes the creation of geographical knowledge, raises awareness as to the making of region in Asia over long historical time—the Ptolemaic world-in-motion—and, as a more latent agenda, sounds an alert as to the perils of overdetermination in the setting of modern boundaries whether upon land or sea.
Book Synopsis The Invention of China in Early Modern England by : Jonathan E. Lux
Download or read book The Invention of China in Early Modern England written by Jonathan E. Lux and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invention of China in Early Modern England describes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how early modern intellectuals used the utopian ideal of China to license all kinds of progressive innovation before chronicling how England’s growing commerce in southeast Asia radically changed China’s representation in the English discourse community. For the new community of English merchants proposing to trade in Chinese goods, China became the seminal example in the growing discourse community of English Orientalism. It was an absolute or arbitrary authoritarian state, associated with crooked business dealings, and cloaked in a rhetoric of secrecy and exclusion—a dangerous exception to the traditions, values, and identities of the emergent English speaking states. Finally, the book points out some of the ways that contemporary English language sources continue to represent this early modern English thought tradition, labelling the complexities of modern China with analytical vocabulary perhaps better suited to the pressing political anxieties of the seventeenth century.
Download or read book The Retrospective Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of criticisms upon, analyses of, and extracts from curious, valuable, and scarce old books.
Download or read book Retrospective Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Brief Encounters by : Brother Anthony of Taizé
Download or read book Brief Encounters written by Brother Anthony of Taizé and published by Seoul Selection . This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is a compilation of Westerners’ accounts of their visits to Korea, originally published in books or newspapers before the country opened its doors in the late nineteenth century. The opening of Korea made it possible to explore the country in detail and write detailed accounts. Prior impressions were garnered mostly from brief visits to remote islands along the coast. The accounts published here are mainly anecdotal, and contain many generalizations. However, the accumulated impressions of these early encounters surely influenced the perspectives of later travelers, and help explain the overwhelmingly negative image of Korea that Western governments harbored at the time. The book can serve as a useful resource for studying Korea’s early interactions with the outside world, and will give readers an idea of the criteria by which Westerners judged the foreign “other.”
Book Synopsis Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714 by : Bridget Orr
Download or read book Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714 written by Bridget Orr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714 analyzes Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire.
Book Synopsis Bulletin of the New York Public Library by : New York Public Library
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Book Synopsis An American Pioneer of Chinese Studies in Cross-Cultural Perspective by : Man Shun Yeung
Download or read book An American Pioneer of Chinese Studies in Cross-Cultural Perspective written by Man Shun Yeung and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs Benjamin Bowen Carter’s (1771–1831) experience learning Chinese in Canton, describes his interactions with European sinologists, traces his attempts to promote Chinese studies to his compatriots, and forces a rewriting of the earliest years of US-China relations.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Private Library of Mr. George S. Davis by : George S. Davis
Download or read book Catalogue of the Private Library of Mr. George S. Davis written by George S. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: