Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe - Image 1

£47.21

Stanford University Press Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe

Name: Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe
Brand: Stanford University Press
Price: 60.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Europe

Price History & Forecast

Last 79 days • 79 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 79 days • 3 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £47 (54 days, 68.4%)

Price range: £47 - £60

Price levels: 3 different prices over 79 days

Description

From the first successful Jesuit mission in 1583 until the disastrous failure of the British trade embassy in 1816, China’s cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, and social critics. The direct influences on European culture were many and profound, ranging from Chinese teahouses in European palace gardens to adaptations of Chinese plays for the popular stage, from calls for the restructuring of the civil service on the model of Chinese meritocracy to the espousal of Confucian precepts in the moral education of children. More significant than even such readily visible gestures of imitation and appropriation, however, were the interpretive strategies that accompanied them: the processes by which Europeans translated the unfamiliar and often enigmatic artifacts of Chinese culture into familiar forms of meaning, thus engaging them in the emergent discourses of European modernity. This book traces recurrent patterns in the European imaginative constructions of China through four illuminating spheres of encounter: linguistic, theological, aesthetic, and economic. How might we compare the perplexity of Europeans before the Chinese writing system with their experience of Chinese religious practice, trade policy, or porcelain design? The author shows how the remarkably consistent interpretive paradigms revealed through such comparisons suggest not only how historical circumstances condition and constrain responses to the foreign but also how an active engagement with the cipher of foreignness shapes the way a society comes to understand itself.

Product Specifications

Brand: Stanford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0804732035
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 July 2002
Listed Since: 15 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Stanford University Press Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History (Columbia Guides to Asian History)

Yin-Yang: American Perspectives on Living in China (Rowman Littlefield)

Art, Science, and Diplomacy: A Study of the Visual Images of the Macartney Embassy to China, 1793

China Through European Eyes: 800 Years Of Cultural And Intellectual Encounter

The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature: (1000BCE-900CE)

Ideography and Chinese Language Theory: A History: 26 (Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l’Extrême Orient, 26)

An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture (China Academic Library)

Routledge - China Through The Ages: History Of A Civilization

Méthode de Chinois 3ème niveau: Enregistrements à télécharger

Chinese Education from the Perspectives of American Educators: Lessons Learned from Study-Abroad Experiences (Literacy, Language and Learning)

The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature

The History of China (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations)

Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics

Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism: 1519 (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

Méthode de chinois premier niveau

A Survey of Chinese Literature

Understanding Chinese Culture: Philosophy, Religion, Science and Technology

Demystifying China: New Understandings of Chinese History

Persistence/Transformation – Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing (Publications of the Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University)

China Since 1949 (Seminar Studies)

Taking China to the World: The Cultural Production of Modernity

Chinese Politics and Government: Power, Ideology and Organization

The Human Tradition in Premodern China (The Human Tradition Around the World Series)

Méthode de chinois deuxième niveau