A global enlightenment : Western progress and Chinese science /  Alexander Statman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The death of Voltaire's Confucius -- The ex-Jesuit mission in China -- The origins of esotericism -- The yin-yang theory of animal magnetism -- The invention of Eastern wisdom.

"A Global Enlightenment is a book about the idea of Western progress, told through a series of conversations about Chinese science. Its protagonists - an ex-Jesuit missionary, a French statesman, a Manchu prince, Chinese literati, European savants, and other figures of the late Enlightenment world - exchanged ideas across cultures. In telling their stories here, Alexander Statman shows how Chinese science shaped a signature legacy of the European Enlightenment: the idea of Western progress. By focusing on the orphans of the Enlightenment, those who sought to vindicate ancient wisdom as others left it behind, Statman reveals that ideas about the uniqueness of the West - and the mystery, inscrutability, or otherness of the East - did not follow from the Enlightenment idea of progress but had to be invented. The orphans of the Enlightenment believed that the knowledge of the past and the East still had value for modern Europe, and their efforts to recover and explain it, in turn, uncover an unknown story of European engagement with Chinese science. In contrast to the common view, that over the course of the Enlightenment non-Western ideas were banished from European thought, Statman found that the opposite is true. Toward the end of the Enlightenment, Europeans only grew more interested in Chinese science, and this has had lasting effects, from the eighteenth century to today"-- Provided by publisher.

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Beating devils and burning their books : views of China, Japan and the West / edited by Anthony E. Clark.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232) and index.

Contending representations : East-West / Anthony E. Clark -- The Chinese macabre in missionary publications and horror fiction / Eric Reinders -- Rape, baptism, and the 'pig' religion : Chinese images of foreign missionaries during the late nineteenth century / Anthony E. Clark -- In search of a Chinese picturesque : William Alexander, George Chinnery, and the visual image of China in nineteenth-century Britain / Catherine Pagani -- China and the confluence of cultures : overcoming the East-West mind-set / Lionel M. Jensen -- (Mis)conceiving the self in early China : memory and truth in early Chinese autobiographical writing / Matthew Wells -- From beat to hardcore : a new twist on phony Zen / Eric P. Cunningham -- The elusive middle : between romanticism and condemnation in the Buddhist imaginary / Mark T. Unno.

China chic : East meets West / Valerie Steele & John S. Major.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-195) and index.

Contents: ch. 1. Decoding dragons: clothing and Chinese identity -- ch. 2. From foot binding to modern fashion -- ch. 3. Fashion revolution: the Maoist uniform -- ch. 4. China chic: East meets West -- ch. 5. "Our women are acting like foreigners' wives!": Western influences on Tang Dynasty women's fashion / Suzanne E. Cahill -- ch. 6. Military culture and Chinese dress in the early twentieth century / Antonia Finnane -- ch. 7. "A woman has so many parts to her body, life is very hard indeed" / Martha Huang -- ch. 8. Jazzing into modernity: high heels, platforms, and lotus shoes / Dorothy Ko -- ch. 9. Cheung Sam: issues of fashion and cultural identity / Hazel Clark -- ch. 10. Dress and the cultural revolution / Verity Wilson.

From the publisher: "China Chic is the first book to explore the evolution of Chinese dress, from the dragon robes and lotus shoes of the imperial era to the creation of new fashions like the cheongsam and the "Mao suit" that symbolised modern Chinese identity. For China specialists, the focus on fashion will open up an entirely new way of thinking about modern Chinese culture and society. For readers whose primary interest is fashion, China Chic demolishes the Eurocentric myth of an ancient, unchanging mode of dress."

China on paper : European and Chinese works from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century / edited by Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè.
Accompanies an exhibition held at the Getty Research Institute, Nov. 6, 2007-Feb. 10, 2008.

In search of perfect clarity / Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè -- A perfume is best from afar : publishing China for Europe / Marcia Reed -- Christ and Confucius : accommodating Christian and Chinese beliefs / Paola Demattè -- From astronomy to heaven : Jesuit science and the conversion of China / Paola Demattè -- Mapping an acentric world : Ferdinand Verbiest's Kunyu quantu / Gang Song and Paola Demattè -- War and peace : four intercultural landscapes / Richard E. Strassberg.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-223) and index. ***Graphic resource.

Added keywords: engraving, Yuanmingyuan 圓明園, publishing of Jesuit books on China in Europe, publishing of Jesuit works in China, illustrated albums, Jesuit science, technology, astronomical instruments, Kunyu quantu 坤輿全圖, Chinese maps, geography, battle scenes, impressions of Chinese life in European books and prints, Christian imagery in Chinese books.

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Contact and exchange in the ancient world / edited by Victor H. Mair.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

See Introduction (pdf).
Contents: Kinesis versus stasis: interaction versus independent invention / Victor H. Mair -- Beyond modernocentrism: toward fresh visions of the global past / Jeffrey H. Bentley -- The trans-Eurasian exchange: the prehistory of Chinese relations with the West / Andrew Sherratt -- The queen mother of the West: a study of the influence of Western prototypes on the iconography of the Taoist deity / Elfriede R. Knauer -- Natural history and cultural history: the circulation of hunting leopards in Eurasia, seventh-seventeenth centuries / Thomas T. Allsen -- Some thoughts on the origins of the Turks and the shaping of the Turkic peoples / Peter B. Golden -- Early loan words in western Central Asia: indications of substrate populations, migrations, and trade relations / Michael Witzel -- Textiles as a medium of exchange in Third Millennium B.C.E. Western Asia / Irene Good -- Cultural and political control in north China: style and use of the bronzes of Yan at Liulihe during the early Western Zhou / Yan Sun -- Biological evidence for pre-Columbian transoceanic voyages / John L. Sorenson and Carl L. Johannessen.

本書是中國歷史學家沈福偉先生有關中外文化交流的重要著作, 也是中國學界中外文化交流史研究的奠基性著作之一. 作者運用大量的考古資料以及國內外文獻資料, 闡述了從遠古時期的新石器時代, 一直到1949年之間的中外文化交流歷程, 系統歸納了中外文化交流的途徑與特徵, 中國文化的內在發展以及中外文化之間的相互影響, 還精細地描繪出了中外文化交流的路線圖.--OCLC record.

"Dialogues Across Civilizations sets the histories of China and Europe alongside one another. Each chapter stands as an essay that imaginatively places historical individuals and events in proximity to one another and explores a specific topic — gender relations, rural politics, artistic renderings of nature, to name a few — through the stories of persons who reflected on similar questions but in different social and cultural settings. Through this juxtaposition, Chinese and European civilizations illuminate each other’s achievements, problems, and limitations in a range of areas from urban history to religious faith.

Privileging neither Europe nor China, this work offers an innovative move away from relativism and multiculturalism towards an analysis that focuses on relationships between social choices and consequences. As a result, both common and divergent perspectives on the human condition emerge for discussion. Drawing upon a rich literature of cross-societal studies, Dialogues Across Civilizations generates reflection on themes central to the study of world history as well as European and Asian history."--Publisher note.

Collection of essays on East-West interchange includes: Xu Wenkan: Tokharians and Buddhism--Huang Shijian 黃時鑒 : Huichao Wang wu Tianzhuguo shidu yulun 慧超往五天竺國識讀余論.

The Columbus Quartet. Columbus, My Enemy. The Admiral and the Chief. Columbus's Competition. Columbus's Comeuppance -- Contrast and Coincidence in the Americas. White Legends and Lost Tribes. The Gardeners of Eden. Death and Taxes. Pandora's Bite. The Matter of Smallpox. "That Unmanned, Wild Countrey" Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca. Pilgrim's Paradox -- Encountering the European World. The Emperor's Giraffe. Coffee, Tea, or Opium? Tripitaka's Journey to the West. Vikings and Eskimos. Disney Dissonance -- Caribbean Connections. Saint George and Juncanoo. Caribbean Diasporas. Cricket and Colonialism -- The Cultural Richness of the World. Reburying Hatchets. A Texas Powwow. Trickster Treats.

The discovery canon -- Historical confabulators and literary geographers -- Observations on nature -- Catholic cosmologies -- Mapping Eurasia -- Enlightenment views of Asian Governance -- Civilizational encounters -- Livelihoods.

"First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. With his metageography of the vast Eurasian zone, Gunn shows how between 1500 and 1800, a lively two-way flow in ideas, philosophies, and cultural products brought competing civilizations into serious dialogue and mostly peaceful exchange. Ranging from discussions of the natural world, livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language, play, crime and punishment, gender, and governance, this book replays the themes of enduring hybridity and creolization of cultures."--OCLC note.

See detailed Table of contents.

Foreign Devils and Philosophers : Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1590-1800 / Thijs Weststeijn.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. China, the Netherlands, Europe: Images, Interactions, Institutions and the Ideal of Global Cultural History / Thijs Weststeijn -- 2.  The Richest Country in the World: Dutch Knowledge of China and Cathay and How to Get There in the 1590s /  Djoeke van Netten -- 3.  Red-Haired Barbarians: The Dongxi Yangkao (1617) and its Portrayal of the Dutch in China /  Lennert Gesterkamp -- 4.  The Tartars in European Missionary Writings of the Seventeenth Century /  Dong Shaoxin -- 5.  Just Like Zhou: Chinese Visitors to the Netherlands (1597-1705) and Their Cultural Representation /  Thijs Weststeijn -- 6.  Chinese Petitions to the Dutch East India Company: Gambling on Formosa /  Joris van den Tol -- 7.  The "Unhappie Ruines" of Princess Mary ii's Lacquer Screen: Sir Constantijn Huygens's Plea to Preserve a Chinese Artefact, 1685-1686 /  Willemijn van Noord -- 8.  A Chinese Philosopher in European Dress: The Review of the First Latin Translation of Confucius (1687) in the Philosophical Transactions and Its Preoccupation with Chinese Chronology /  Trude Dijkstra -- 9.  The Relational Network of Court Jesuits in Local Provinces: The Example of Tomás Pereira (1689-1690) /  Chen Yufang -- 10.  Jesuit Libraries in Beijing and China in the Perspective of the Communication between Europe and China in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries /  Noël Golvers -- 11.  Curiosity and Authority: Images of Europeans at the Qing Court during the Kangxi and Yongzheng Reigns /  Sun Jing -- 12.  The Origin of the Dutch Embassy to China in 1794 /  Cai Xiangyu.

What was the cultural impact of early meetings between Chinese and Europeans? This book explores visual, literary, and scholarly representations of the Celestial Empire and Western countries against the backdrop of actual encounters. Based on rare Chinese and, correspondingly, European (especially Dutch) sources and archival documents, the volume covers a range of cultural expressions from the applied arts to philosophy. Special attention goes to the ideals and realities of trade and diplomacy of the Dutch East India Company in China. Foreign Devils and Philosophers approaches global history from a cultural perspective and illuminates the reciprocal dynamic of aversion and admiration: Chinese and Westerners could appear as sages or savages in each other's eyes.--Publisher note.

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目錄
大衛·豪斯：作為感覺交流的文化交流：感覺研究中的中西文明相遇 / 1
孟華：法國18世紀“景德鎮神話“何以形成：一個感覺史意義上的中法文化交流的個案 / 18
科琳娜·瓦格納：從瓷器到人：視像、感覺、藝術和醫學 / 40
約翰·威爾金斯：蓋倫論味覺與嗅覺 / 66
布蘭登·加拉赫：靈性感知傳統的延續和轉變 / 75
顧衛民：16-17世紀耶穌會傳教藝術中的天使的形象 / 98
董少新：“黑睛小眼”與“碧瞳深目”的對望以及關於眼睛的審美 / 125
賴毓芝：知識、想像與交流：南懷仁《坤輿全圖》之生物插繪眼睛 / 141
潘夏梨：技貫中西：乾隆宮廷西洋畫師王致誠（1702-1768）作品中的文化交流 / 183
白若思：17-18世紀中國藝術在俄國與俄國中國風的特點 / 196
施靜菲：全球史視野下的“西洋”多層木套杯與跨文化的清宮 / 227
夏伯嘉：明末清初在華傳教士的飲食內容 / 274
何安娜：“美味之鹽”：近代早期醬油傳入歐洲史 / 281
可飛鯊、樂懷璧：19-20世紀英國對中國性實物的收藏及其文化的解讀 / 295
莊岳：痰嗽之聲：“通過儀式”與“社會戲劇”/ 312

"本書共收入論文15篇. 本書主題屬於跨學科性質, 嘗試利用人類學領域中的感官感覺研究方法, 分析中西文化交流中的一般歷史現象, 希望感官感覺研究方法的引入, 能夠對中西文化交流史的研究起到啟發和推動作用, 同時也希望跨區域的文化交流研究方法也能夠給感官感覺研究帶來新的視角和研究內容"--OCLC note.

The great encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 / D.E. Mungello.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historical overview -- Chinese acceptance of western culture and Christianity -- Chinese rejection of western culture and Christianity -- European acceptance of Chinese culture and Confucianism -- European rejection of Chinese culture and Confucianism.

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Introduction: A Journey to the East -- A New Account of A Trip Around the Globe -- A Brief Account of the American Exposition -- The Origins of the American Exposition -- Some General Comments on the Fairgrounds -- The Main Building -- Machinery Hall -- The Art Gallery -- Agricultural Hall -- Horticultural Hall -- The American Government Building -- The Women's Pavilion -- The Office of the Exhibition Officials -- Notes on Sightseeing -- The American City of Philadelphia -- The American Capital of Washington -- The American City of Hartford -- The American City of New York -- Notes on Sightseeing -- The English Capital of London -- The French Capital of Paris -- The Visit of the Chinese Education Mission Students to the Centennial -- A Complete Account of the Actual Condition of the Chinese in America -- A Brief Account of the Suez Canal -- A Short Essay on Chinese and Foreign Merchants Abroad -- Getting Along in Western Countries: An Introduction to the Essentials -- A Few Words on Running Water -- A Few Words on Hotels -- Some Comments on Westerners Entertaining Guests -- Some Thoughts on Carriage Noise -- Diary of a Journey to the East -- A Few Words about the Map of the Globe -- From Shanghai to Yokohama -- From Yokohama to San Francisco --t From San Francisco to Philadelphia -- From Philadelphia to London -- From London to Marseilles -- From Marseilles Back to Shanghai.

"Li Gui's record of his epic 1876 journey marks China's first officially sanctioned eyewitness account of people and places around the world." "A representative to the U.S. Centennial in Philadelphia, Li Gui went on to style himself as the first Chinese official to circle the globe, and his travel diary offers a revealing window into the Chinese view of the West in the late nineteenth century. As the first full-length English translation of this landmark excursion, A Journey to the East provides a welcome addition to primary source material on this time period." "Li Gui's experiences traveling through the United States offer a unique perspective on the newest technological and urban developments of the day in Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C., and other major U.S. cities. In his day, these observations on Japan, the United States, Great Britain, France, and their colonial possessions helped the Chinese government construct a more accurate picture of imperial power and statecraft abroad. Later, the diary became required reading for reformers and revolutionaries from Li Hongzhang to Mao Zedong." "Li's journal also provides rich material for exploring a number of theoretical issues stemming from the Sino-foreign encounter. He devotes considerable space to debunking the views of his colleagues regarding the importance of technology, finance, and communication. Most striking of all are his thoughts on gender and education, which place him within the ranks of "progressive" thinkers in any nineteenth-century society."--Jacket.

Edition online at Internet Archive.

1 Introduction 1 -- 2 An Anomaly in Colonization and Decolonization 9 -- The Age of Discovery 9 -- The Encounter of Two Civilizations 17 -- Problematic Sovereignty and Colonial Ideology 22 -- The Assertion of 'Perpetual Occupation' 26 -- Opium-Trafficking and Slave Trade 30 -- A Poetic Desire for Decolonization 33 -- Anachronistic Decolonization and a 'Pre-Postcolonial' Era 35 -- A Resurgent Symbol: The Bank of China Building 38 -- An Unprecedented Nostalgia 39 -- A Punctum in History 41 -- 3 'City of the Name of God of Macau in China, There is -- None More Loyal' 47 -- The Toponymy of Macau 47 -- The Propagation of Christianity 50 -- The Partition of the World 53 -- Rites Controversy 54 -- Ancestor Worship and Chinese Reactions to Christianity 62 -- Christianity, Gunboats and Cannons 66 -- Autonomization of the Chinese Church 73 -- An Oasis of Catholicism 74 -- 4 The Rendezvous of a Virgin Trio 81 -- Religious Culture in Macau 81 -- The Facade of the Church of the Mother of God 83 -- Ma Zu Ge or the Temple of the Goddess of the Sea 100 -- Guan Yin Tang or the Temple of the Goddess of Mercy 116 -- Two 'Civilizing' Forces 121 -- 5 Colonial Stereotypes, Transgressive Punishment and Cultural -- Anthropophagy 127 -- The 'Twain' Meet 127 -- Western Literary Stereotypes of Macau 129 -- The Evocation of the Child/Mistress Imagery 142 -- The Punishment of the Western Intruder 144 -- Cannibalism, Carnivalism and the Mastication of the Barbarian Other 146 -- The Intrigue of Miscegenation and the Manipulation of -- Chinese Myths 149 -- The Monkey King's Ordeal 152 -- The Ultimate Victor 155 -- Satiric Elements and a Return to the Centre 156 -- A Field of 'Wheat' and 'Weeds' 157 -- 6 Midway Sojourners, Macanese Moments and Stoical Settlers 161 -- The River and the Sea 161 -- City of Threshold and Exile 163 -- Peninsular Affectivity 169 -- A Flaneur's Amor 173 -- A Macanese Dilemma 177 -- A Bohemian's Adventure 180 -- City of Anchorage and Endurance 182 -- A Return from Exile 190 -- Rootlessness and Rootedness 192 -- 7 Conclusion 197.

Contents: Introduction -- The Imaginary City - Departures; 1 -- Two Worlds - Origins: Portugal and China; 2 -- Boundaries - On the Periphery; 3 -- Memories - The Architecture of History; 4 -- Transitions - Crossing the Threshold; 5 -- Moments - The Culture of Everyday Life; 6 -- Images - Spiritual Topography; Conclusion -- Illusions - Epilogue

Roads to Xanadu : East and West in the making of the modern world / John Merson.
Based on a television series of the same name.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-282) and index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Note on Calendar and Transliteration -- Introduction.

I. Muscovite Statecraft and Hybrid Knowledge
1. Muscovy on the Knowledge Frontier
2. Seeing China through Russian Eyes
II. Bureaucrats and their Secrets
3. Secret Missions, Troublesome Missionaries
5. The Caravan as a Knowledge Bureaucracy
6. The Commerce of Long-Distance Letters
III. Remaking Knowledge on the Frontier
7. Frontier Intelligence and the Struggle for Inner Asia
8. Spies and Subversion in Eastern Siberia
IV. Intelligence and Sinology in Search of World Power
9. Imperial Encounters in the North Pacific
10. Making Russian Sinology in the Age of Napoleon
11. Conspiracy and Conquest on the Amur
Conclusion

Appendix: Reign Dates -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Gregory Afinogenov explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. He argues that the approaches the empire took are closely related to its leaders' perception of Russia's place in the world. Espionage gave way to public-facing, academic study, as Russia sought to outdo Britain in a global contest for imperial prestige.

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Tangible whispers, neglected encounters : histories of East-West artistic dialogues, 14th-20th century / Marco Musillo.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-266).

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Hot Air and Flying Dragons: Historiographical Fractures and Interpretation

Part I: Ethnography
1. From Tartar Faces to Chinese Bodies: the Transformation of Identities

Part II: Diplomacy
2. Dancing Venues and Theatrical Receptions: Early Modern Diplomacy and the Japanese Legation to Europe
3. American Entertainment and Display: Qing Empress Cixi in the St. Louis Exposition

Part III: Materiality
4. The Routes of the Screen: Local Forms and Transcultural Designs
5. Tombstones and “Anomalous” Canons
6. Filipino Sculptures as Eventful Art

The great encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 / D.E. Mungello.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Historical overview--2. Chinese acceptance of Western culture and Christianity: Jesuit accomodation, Jesuit conversions of the literati, Missionary antagonism with Chinese society, closing of Chinese minds (c. 1644), Chinese reaction to Christian paintings and engravings--3. Chinese rejection of Western culture and Christianity: basis of anti-Christian feeling in China, anti-Christian movements, European art at the Chinese court, among the Chinese literati-painters--4. European acceptance of Chinese culture and Confucianism: Chinese rites controversy, proto-Sinologists, Leibniz, Bouvet and Figurism, European view of the literati tradition, Confucianism versus Neo-Confucianism, influence of Chinese art upon European artists--5. European rejection of Chinese culture and Confucianism: China popularizers in Europe, Enlightenment idealization of Chinese moral and political system, differing views of polyhistors and philosophes, from white to yellow, Macartney mission (1792-1794).

The great encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 / D.E. Mungello.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Silk Road and cultural exchanges between East and West / by Rong Xinjiang ; translated by Sally K. Church, et al. ; edited by Sally K. Church and Imre Galambos.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book is translated into English from the original (Sichou zhilu yu dongxi wenhua jiaoliu by Rong Xinjiang)."

"This first and only English translation of Rong Xinjiang's The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West is a collection of 28 papers on the history of the Silk Road and the interactions among the peoples and cultures of East and Central Asia, including the so-called Western Regions in modern-day Xinjiang. Each paper is a masterly study that combines information obtained from historical records with excavated materials, such as manuscripts, inscriptions and artefacts. The new materials primarily come from north-western China, including sites in the regions of Dunhuang, Turfan, Kucha, and Khotan. The book contains a wealth of original insights into nearly every aspect of the complex history of this region"-- Provided by publisher.

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Zhong-Xi wenhua jiaoliu xianqu 中西文化交流先驅 : cong Li Madou dao Lang Shining 從利馬竇到朗世寧 / Xu Minglong zhubian 許明龍主編.
Colophon title also in pinyin: Zhong-Xi wenhua jiaoliu xianqu 中西文化交流先驅.
"Zhong-Xi wenhua jiaoliu dashi nianbiao (1582-1793) 中西文化交流大事年表": p. 363-370.
Includes bibliographical references.