China in the German enlightenment

"Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and everything to do with Enlightenment conceptions o...

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Autres auteurs:	Brandt, Bettina (Éditeur intellectuel), Purdy, Daniel L. 1963- (Éditeur intellectuel), Reading China during the Enlightenment (Auteur)
Format:	Ebook
Langue:	English
Publié:	Toronto Buffalo London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Titres liés à la collection:	German and European studies 24
Accès à la collection:	German and European studies
Sujets:	Orientalism Orientalism in literature Race in literature Chinese in literature Enlightenment German literature Philosophy, German Electronic books Deutschland Aufklärung plus... Chinabild China Rezeption Philosophie Geschichte 1690-1965 Orientalismus
Description matérielle:	1 Online-Ressource (viii, 210 Seiten)