ENGLISH

Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe

By David Porter

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN
0804732035, 9780804732031
Google Books ID
YoFdUzZSe60C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
52 MB (54550216 bytes)
Pages
296\312
Time added
2021-01-19 00:30:26

Description

From the first successful Jesuit mission to China in 1583, China's cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, and social critics. This book traces recurrent patterns in the European imaginative constructions of China through four illuminating spheres of encounter: linguistic, theological, aesthetic, and economic.

Similar books