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China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter

[1] 书籍信息

Kerry Brown / Gemma Chenger Deng, China Through European Eyes: 800 Years of Cultural and Intellectual Encounter, WSPC (EUROPE), March 2022.

[2] 作者简介

Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King's College London. He is an Associate of the Asia Pacific Programme at Chatham House, London, an adjunct of the Australia New Zealand School of Government in Melbourne, and the co-editor of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, run by the German Institute for Global Affairs in Hamburg. He is President-Elect of the Kent Archaeological Society.

From 2012 to 2015 he was Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to this he worked at Chatham House from 2006 to 2012 as Senior Fellow and then Head of the Asia Programme. From 1998 to 2005 he worked at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Beijing, and then as Head of the Indonesia, Philippine and East Timor Section. He lived in the Inner Mongolia region of China from 1994 to 1996. He has a Master of Arts from Cambridge University, a Postgraduate Diploma in Mandarin Chinese (Distinction) from Thames Valley University, London, and a PhD in Chinese politics and language from Leeds University.

Professor Brown directed the Europe China Research and Advice Network (ECRAN), giving policy advice to the European External Action Service between 2011 and 2014. He is the author of almost 20 books on modern Chinese politics, and has written for every major international news outlet, and been interviewed by every major news channel on issues relating to contemporary China. More details of his work can be found at www.kerry-brown.co.uk.

[3] 内容简介

China Through European Eyes provides a reader's perspective on the conceptualisation of China by Europeans over the last 800 years. With annotated excerpts of their key China related writings by influential figures such as Voltaire, Ricci, Leibniz, Montesquieu, Marx, Weber, Hegel, Barthes and Kristeva, this collection brings together the visions and ideas of individuals who had a unique impact upon European culture. The views within range wildly as the authors wrestle with what sense to make of China's cultural and social difference to their lives in the West, conceptualising China as a place of threat, otherness, exoticism, but also inspiration.

This important selection allows for comparison of perspectives across different times in Europe, allowing readers to map out continuities and evolutions of attitudes towards China. It shows that contemporary European attitudes towards China have deep roots. With an extensive introduction, full bibliography and widespread annotations on original texts, this book will be of interest to anyone engaged with the role of China in the world today, particularly those interested in how the crucial relationship between China and Europe developed over time.

[4] 书籍目录

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Europeans Watching China, Inside and Out

Origins:

In the Khan's Palaces: Marco Polo

The China of the Imagination: Samuel Purchas

Jesuitical Encounters: Matteo Ricci

Enlightenment Views:

Confucian Civility: Gottfried Leibniz

Admiring the East: Voltaire

Despotic Empire: Montesquieu

Cultural Encounters in the Modern Era:

The Macartney Expedition, 1792–1794: John Barrow

Historic Dialectics: Georg Hegel

Imperial Sympathy: Karl Marx

Encounters on the Edges: Évariste Régis Huc

The Moderns:

What Do Chinese Believe?: Max Weber

Problematising China: Bertrand Russell

Chinese Wisdom for Modern Europeans: Carl Jung

Seeking the Revolution: Maoist China:

Socialist Solidarity: Simone de Beauvoir

Feminine China: Julia Kristeva

Fellow Traveller: Roland Barthes

Selected Further Reading

Index

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