Michael Keevak 
Embassies to China [PDF ebook] 
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.

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Introduction: Embassies and Failures.- Making ’Peace’ with the East.- Portugal and ’Empire’.- Holland and ’Trade’.- The Pope’s ’Religion’.- Russia and ’Diplomacy’.- Epilogue: ’Embassies’ to Europe.

Om författaren

Michael Keevak is Professor of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University, where he has taught since 1993. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which is
Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (2011), winner of the Academia Sinica Book Award in Humanities and Social Sciences in 2013.

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Språk Engelska ● Formatera PDF ● Sidor 162 ● ISBN 9789811039720 ● Filstorlek 14.6 MB ● Utgivare Springer Singapore ● Stad Singapore ● Land SG ● Publicerad 2017 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 5195758 ● Kopieringsskydd Social DRM

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