Chinese Sympathies
Title | Chinese Sympathies PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Leonhard Purdy |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2021-10-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501759760 |
Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established intellectual regimes that framed China as being fundamentally similar to Europe. Analyzing key German literary texts—theological treatises, imperial histories, tragic dramas, moral philosophies, literary translations, and poetic cycles—Chinese Sympathies traces the paths from baroque-era missionary reports that accommodated Christianity with Confucianism to Goethe's concept of world literature, bridged by Enlightenment debates over cosmopolitanism and sympathy, culminating in a secular principle that allowed readers to identify meaningful similarities across culturally diverse literatures based on shared human experiences. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org. The open access edition is available at Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
The Hypothetical Mandarin : Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain
Title | The Hypothetical Mandarin : Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Hayot Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Asian Studies Pennsylvania State University |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2009-03-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0199700117 |
Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? What can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the politics of the West's contemporary relation to China? And what does it tell us about the philosophy of modernity? The Hypothetical Mandarin is, in some sense, a history of the Western imagination. It is also a history of the interactions between Enlightenment philosophy, of globalization, of human rights, and of the idea of the modern. Beginning with Bianchon and Rastignac's discussion of whether the former would, if he could, obtain a European fortune by killing a Chinese mandarin in Balzac's Le Pere Goriot (1835), the book traces a series of literary and historical examples in which Chinese life and European sympathy seem to hang in one another's balance. Hayots wide-ranging discussion draws on accounts of torture, on medical case studies, travelers tales, photographs, plasticized corpses, polemical broadsides, watercolors, and on oil paintings. His analyses show that the historical connection between sympathy and humanity, and indeed between sympathy and reality, has tended to refract with a remarkable frequency through the lens called "China," and why the story of the West's Chinese pain goes to the heart of the relation between language and the body and the social experience of the modern human being. Written in an ebullient prose, The Hypothetical Mandarin demonstrates how the network that intertwines China, sympathy, and modernity continues to shape the economic and human experience.
The Hypothetical Mandarin Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain
Title | The Hypothetical Mandarin Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Hayot |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2009-11-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195377966 |
Beginning with Bianchon and Rastignac's discussion of whether the former would, if he could, obtain a European fortune by killing a Chinese mandarin in Balzac's Le Pere Goriot (1835), this book traces a series of literary and historical examples in which Chinese life and European sympathy seem to hang in one another's balance. Hayots wide-ranging discussion draws on accounts of torture, on medical case studies, travelers tales, photographs, plasticized corpses, polemical broadsides, watercolors, and on oil paintings. His analyses show that the historical connection between sympathy and humanity, and indeed between sympathy and reality, has tended to refract with a remarkable frequency through the lens called "China," and why the story of the West's Chinese pain goes to the heart of the relation between language and the body and the social experience of the modern human being.
The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal
Title | The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 756 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Missions |
ISBN |
Problems of Communism
Title | Problems of Communism PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Communism |
ISBN |
Unity
Title | Unity PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 758 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Liberalism (Religion) |
ISBN |
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Title | Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio PDF eBook |
Author | Songling Pu |
Publisher | London : T. De la Rue & Company |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | China |
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