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Download or read book The History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China Wherein All the Particular Provinces are Accurately Described as Also the Dispositions Manners Learning Lawes Militia Government and Religion of the People Together with the Traffick and Commodities of that Countrey Lately Written in Italian by F Alvarez Semedo Now Put Into English by a Person of Quality and Illustrated with Several Mapps and Figures To which is Added the History of the Late Invasion and Conquest of that Flourishing Kingdom by the Tartars With an Exact Account of the Other Affairs of China Till These Present Times written by Alvaro Semedo and published by . This book was released on 1655 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China written by F. Alvarez Semedo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China: Wherein All the Particular Provinces Are Accurately Described; As Also the Dispositions, Manners, Learning, Lawes, Militia, Government, and Religion of the People It is now fifty eight years, that they have laboured under this f0 difiant Climate, where direeting all their force and endeavours, to the converlion of Souls they account it a m anifefitheft, to employ'any otherwife that time which they owe to the Service of God, and is of fo much importance for the Eternall Salvation of men. Hence it is, that never any yet did, or would it have been permitted him, if he had defired it, to employ himfellein writing the Relation of this Kingdome; exceptit were Father Nicolau: Trigalzim, after he had by permi ion with-drawn himfelf from the culture of Chrif'tianity among the Chine/er, and pa ed from thence in to Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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Download or read book The History of that Great and Renowned Monarchy of China Lately Written in Italian Now Put Into English and Illustrated with Several Mapps and Figures To which is Added the History of the Late Invasion and Conquest of that Flourishing Kingdom by the Tartars With an Exact Account of the Other Affairs of China Till These Present Times written by Alvaro SEMMEDO and published by . This book was released on 1655 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Anglo Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War written by Xin Liu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I’s first letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston’s letter to the Minister of China in 1840. Starting with Queen Elizabeth I’s letter to the Chinese Emperor and ending with the letter from Lord Palmerston to the Minister of China just before the Opium War, this book explores the long journey in between from cultural diplomacy to gunboat diplomacy. It interweaves the most known diplomatic efforts at the official level with the much unknown intellectual interactions at the people-to-people level, from missionaries to scholars, from merchants to travelers and from artists to scientists. This book adopts a novel "mirror" approach by pairing and comparing people, texts, commodities, artworks, architecture, ideologies, operating systems and world views of the two empires. Using letters, gifts and traded goods as fulcrums, and by adopting these unique lenses, it puts China into the world history narratives to contextualise Anglo-Chinese relations, thus providing a fresh analysis of the surviving evidence. Xin Liu casts a new light on understanding the Sino-centric and Anglo-centric world views in driving the complex relations between the two empires, and the reversals of power shifts that are still unfolding today. The book is not intended for specialists in history, but a general audience wishing to learn more about China’s historical engagement with the world.

Download or read book An American Pioneer of Chinese Studies in Cross Cultural Perspective written by Man Shun Yeung and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs Benjamin Bowen Carter’s (1771–1831) experience learning Chinese in Canton, describes his interactions with European sinologists, traces his attempts to promote Chinese studies to his compatriots, and forces a rewriting of the earliest years of US-China relations.

Download or read book Encountering China written by Rachana Sachdev and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges, to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, though they were also critical of some local traditions and practices. Contributors engage critically with travelogues, treating them not just as occasional sources of historical information but as primary, literary texts deeply revelatory of the world they describe. Contributors reach back to the earliest European writings available on China in an effort to broaden and nuance our understanding of European contact with the Middle Kingdom in the early modern period. While the primary focus of these essays is the external gaze – European sources about China – contributors also tease out aspects of the Chinese world-view of the time, thus generating a conversation between Chinese literary and historical texts and European ones.

Download or read book Art as a Pathway to God written by Susangeline Yalili Patrick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates history, theology, and art and analyzes the Jesuits’ cross-cultural mission in late imperial China. Readers will find a rich collection of resources from historical sites, museums, manuscripts, and archival materials, including previous unpublished works of art. The production and circulation of art from different historical periods and categories show the artistic, theological, and missional values of Christian art. It highlights European Jesuits, Asian Christians, transnationalism, and gives voice to Chinese Christian women and their patronage of art in the seventeenth century. It offers a rare systematic study of the relation between art and mission history.

Download or read book Strange Tales of an Oriental Idol written by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did word of the Buddha first reach Western ears? Over the centuries, until the first reliable introduction to Buddhism was published in France in 1844, rumors and reports of this oriental idol and his teachings reached the West in haphazard but fascinating ways. A Jesuit missionary traveling with a Thai delegation to the court of Louis XIV spent months at sea with a Buddhist monk and asked him many questions. A Russian ship captain was held captive for three years in Japan and learned about the Buddha from his jailors. A Catholic priest in China dressed like a Confucian gentleman and learned in this way to disparage the Buddha. British army officers on surveys of India struggled to decipher monuments, inscriptions, and statues. Western references to Buddhism extend back to the first years of the third century CE, and during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, European contact with, and writing about, Buddhism was extensive. Because much of this writing is considered wrong today, it is often forgotten or dismissed, but in this anthology Donald S. Lopez Jr. shows their great importance for understanding how our view of the Buddha evolved, from an idol worshipped by heathens to the revered founder of a religion. This fascinating compendium begins with Clement of Alexandria around 200 and ends with the great French scholar Eugene Burnouf in 1844. It can be read as a companion to Lopez s 2013 book From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha (forthcoming in paperback in the same season) or enjoyed on its own for its strange but instructive tales."

Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Books on China written by Arthur Probsthain and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Brief Encounters written by Brother Anthony of Taizé and published by Seoul Selection . This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is a compilation of Westerners’ accounts of their visits to Korea, originally published in books or newspapers before the country opened its doors in the late nineteenth century. The opening of Korea made it possible to explore the country in detail and write detailed accounts. Prior impressions were garnered mostly from brief visits to remote islands along the coast. The accounts published here are mainly anecdotal, and contain many generalizations. However, the accumulated impressions of these early encounters surely influenced the perspectives of later travelers, and help explain the overwhelmingly negative image of Korea that Western governments harbored at the time. The book can serve as a useful resource for studying Korea’s early interactions with the outside world, and will give readers an idea of the criteria by which Westerners judged the foreign “other.”