Embassies to China
Diplomacy and Cultural Encounters Before the Opium Wars
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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.
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.
Provides a comparative study of five Western embassies to China between the 13th and 18th centuries Offers key insights into the development of global modernity through Europe’s early encounter with China Focuses on the five key concepts of peace, empire, trade, religion, and diplomacy in the Europe-China encounter
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Michael Keevak
Themen in »Embassies to China«
Embassies to premodern China Comparative history of China and the West Premodern Chinese-European relations Empire and colonialism Free trade agreements Christianity in China Sino-Russian trade relations Early modern Asian studies China History from 1500 to 1750 Chinese rites and ceremonies