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Embassies to China: Diplomacy and Cultural Encounters Before the Opium Wars
Michael Keevak
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Description for Embassies to China: Diplomacy and Cultural Encounters Before the Opium Wars
Hardback. Num Pages: 260 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore
Condition
New
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789811039713
SKU
V9789811039713
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Michael Keevak
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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