Download or read book Chinesia written by Adrian Hsia and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our perception of the Others is based on our conception of ourselves. In theory the Others should be different. If necessary, we alter their images to accommodate the apperception of ourselves. Thus Chinesia, an amalgamation of facts and fiction, was created. In order to avoid previous repetition of stereotypes and prejudices, the present study re-examines the parameters which created Chinesia and traces its development to the end of the 18th century. It discusses the reports of the European seafarers and trade embassies to China and analyzes the situation of the Jesuit missionaries and their European publications on China. These helped to develop a wondrous China during Baroque and early Enlightenment which, however, gradually became offensive to Christian pride. After Christian Wolff was dismissed from the University of Halle and banished from Prussia for eulogizing Confucianism, China was steadily downgraded, particularly by the historicists who were re-evaluating the position of Europe in World History. The white race was perceived as superior to all other races (David Hume and Kant); consequently, the complexion of the Chinese became increasingly yellower. It darkened from the Meerschaum hue (Lichtenberg) to the color of dried orange peels (Gobineau) toward the end of the 19th century. Finally, the Chinese were considered to be too stupid to have created the Chinese culture. The literary works of these periods reflect this development. The literary study begins with the analysis of European dramatization of the Manchu Conquest of China and its subsequent fictional Christianization. Then the Jesuit plays with Chinese themes are discussed, for the first time in literary history. Also analyzed is the reception of the Chinese Orphan motive in European literature which was the turning point in downgrading China, and subsequently Montesquieu's impact on Albrecht von Haller's novel "Usong" is examined. Thereafter, the study scrutinizes the contradictory positions of Herder and von Seckendorff (or Goethe, for that matter) in Weimar. The book concludes with a concise analysis of the 'eschatological sinism' of Hegel, Marx and Weber to indicate the development of the later centuries.
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Download or read book Nouveau recueil g n ral de trait s et autres actes relatifs aux rapports de droit international written by Georg Friedrich Martens and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jean Marie Duthilleul and Etienne Tricaud written by Jean-Marie Duthilleul and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in January 1997 by architect-engineers Jean-Marie Duthilleul and Etienne Tricaud, AREP Group is a multidisciplinary design practice specializing in urban development and construction. AREP's diverse body of work can be found across Europe and Asi
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Download or read book Nouveau recueil g n ral de trait s et autres actes relatifs aux rapports de droit international written by George Frédéric de Martens and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Tangible Whispers Neglected Encounters written by Marco Musillo and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2019-02-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between East and West remains a topic of burning timeliness, particularly in its political dimension. Yet, we can gain a complete understanding of the current tensions only if we consider them within a broader historical framework, spanning from art to diplomacy, from religion to ethnography. The present volume tackles precisely this complex task, offering its reader a rich mosaic of case studies and scholarly research, relating to the mutual approaches between the Euro-American ‘West’, and the Sino-Japanese ‘East’. In the first part of the book, art historian Marco Musillo uses the depictions of Tartars in fourteenth-century Italian frescoes as the starting point of a trajectory leading to eighteenth-century European literature on China. In the second part, the reader is introduced to two cases of diplomatic encounter, one in sixteenth-century Italy between Japanese subjects and local courts, and the other one between Qing China and twentieth-century United States, in the space of the universal exhibition in St. Louis. Finally, the last section proposes three interconnected art historical explorations: the screen design of Chinese origin in colonial Mexico, Medieval Christian tombstones in China, and early-modern Filipino sacred sculpture.
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Download or read book Rodolphe Bresdin written by Dirk Gelder and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rai lu et relu {laquo}Rodolphe Bresdim. C'est un beau livre, obscurs-Ia question des reports sur pierre des eaux et qui aura grand sucd~s. On ne Ie refera plus; on sera fortes, celle de la metamorphose de plusieurs cuivres, oblige de toujours s'y referer. C'est serieux, precis, in celle de la premiere litho de l'artiste, catalogue 82 telligent. (Neumann n6, complete par une piece de l'ancienne Un des grands interets du livre est une chronologie collection Bonger). II etait bien place pour Ie faire, serieuse, et tres sou vent nouvelle, des gravures et etant lui-meme graveur. lith os (l'auteur a eu raison de ne pas les separer dans II tient a ce qu'on n'oublie pas que, comme son son catalogue). Van Gelder croit-et sans doute les frere aine, l'historien de l'art J.G. van Gelder, il a eu lecteurs avec lui-avoir resolu les problemes si deli pour modele son pere, grand historien, fondateur du cats du classement anterieur a 1854; apres 1854, les hesi Musee municipal de La Haye. tations etaient moins nombreuses, mais Van Gelder On a donc ici, redisons-le, un beau travail, serieux, montre qu'on ne peut se fier completement aux indi honnete, representant plus de dix ans de la vie de son cations confuses de Bresdin lui-meme. auteur, intelligent et particulierement bien informe.
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Download or read book History of Central Asia The 4 volume set written by Christoph Baumer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set includes all four volumes of the critically acclaimed History of Central Asia series. The epic plains and arid deserts of Central Asia have witnessed some of the greatest migrations, as well as many of the most transformative developments, in the history of civilization. Christoph Baumer's ambitious four-volume treatment of the region charts the 3000-year drama of Scythians and Sarmatians; Soviets and transcontinental Silk Roads; trade routes and the transmission of ideas across the steppes; and the breathless and brutal conquests of Alexander the Great and Chinghiz Khan. Masterfully interweaving the stories of individuals and peoples, the author's engaging prose is richly augmented throughout by colour photographs taken on his own travels. This set includes The Age of the Steppe Warriors (Volume 1), The Age of the Silk Roads (Volume 2), The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3) and The Age of Decline and Revival (Volume 4)
