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.

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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Listening to China : sound and the Sino-Western encounter, 1770-1839 / Thomas Irvine.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Process and perspective -- China and the enlightened ear -- Soundscapes in the contact zone : Listening in Canton, 1770-1839 -- Charles Burney discovers China -- Sound and the Macartney Mission, 1792-1794 -- Reading Burney listening to China -- Listening to China with Forkel and Marx -- Epilogue : sound and the Sino-Western encounter.

From bell ringing to fireworks, gongs to cannon salutes, a dazzling variety of sounds and soundscapes marked the China encountered by the West around 1800. These sounds were gathered by diplomats, trade officials, missionaries, and other travelers and transmitted back to Europe, where they were reconstructed in the imaginations of writers, philosophers, and music historians such as Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, and Charles Burney. Thomas Irvine gathers these stories in Listening to China, exploring how the sonic encounter with China shaped perceptions of Europe’s own musical development. Through these stories, Irvine not only investigates how the Sino-Western encounter sounded, but also traces the West’s shifting response to China. As the trading relationships between China and the West broke down, travelers and music theorists abandoned the vision of shared musical approaches, focusing instead on China’s noisiness and sonic disorder and finding less to like in its music. At the same time, Irvine reconsiders the idea of a specifically Western music history, revealing that it was comparison with China, the great “other,” that helped this idea emerge. Ultimately, Irvine draws attention to the ways Western ears were implicated in the colonial and imperial project in China, as well as to China’s importance to the construction of musical knowledge during and after the European Enlightenment. Timely and original, Listening to China is a must-read for music scholars and historians of China alike.

"Listening to China is our first important foray in the field of global music history, which is rapidly establishing itself as the main area of growth in music studies. Compellingly and expertly written by a seasoned scholar, it tells the story of how Westerners experienced China with their ears at the time of the Sino-Western encounter of ca. 1800, and what this meant for their own construction of musical knowledge. It explores two kinds of Western practices of listening in and to China: ear-witness accounts by travelers to China, including diplomats, trade officials, and missionaries; and writings about Chinese music by European writers, philosophers, and music historians who constructed China's sound in their imaginations. The book's primary objective is a better understanding of how Westerners gained/gathered sonic knowledge of China and to investigate the aural dimensions of the Sino-Western encounter At the same time, the book reconsiders the idea of a specifically Western music history by showing how it was precisely the comparison with a great "other"--China--that helped the idea itself to emerge. Ultimately, the book draws attention to the importance of China for the construction of (musical) knowledge during and following the European Enlightenment."-- Provided by publisher.

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Parallel lives, congenial visions : Christian precursors of modernity in China and Japan / Leopold Leeb.

"Authorised translation from the Chinese language edition Wo de lingru 我的灵儒 first published by Institute of Sino-Christian Studies, Tao Feng Shan, Hong Kong, 2023"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Content:
This book introduces the history of cultural exchanges between East Asia and the West through comparative biographical sketches of sixty personalities from China and Japan. These sketches illustrate how both countries, starting from a shared cultural heritage in script and Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist worldviews, took rather different approaches in their encounters with the European world since the 16th to 17th centuries. In particular in the 19th century under external and internal pressure, both nations strove to modernize their societies by introducing technology and new ideas from the Western world, turning them into political rivals and even enemies. Thus, these biographical sketches also shed some light on the general dynamics of cross-cultural interactions between China, Japan, and the West up to the early 20th century.

The Chinese and Japanese men and women presented in this book are outstanding personalities who tried to open up the road to international relationships, pioneers in their respective domains who introduced Western culture to their nations, precursors who strove for modernization, e.g., in the fields of translation, education, medicine, media, and social welfare. They testify to individual agency in these cross-cultural exchanges. Many of those who tried to be “cultural bridge-builders” since the 16th century were Christians, simply because the missionaries, who worked hard to learn the native languages of China and Japan, were the first to introduce new cultural elements to these countries. The universal scope and vision of the Christian faith enabled both missionaries and native believers to overcome narrow nationalism or xenophobia and turned them into cross-cultural mediators.

Table of Contents:
Preface by He Guanghu
Preface by Muraoka Takamitsu
Preface by the Author

Introduction
Chapter One: The Trailblazers’ Guides: Anjirō (ca. 1520–1565) and Zhong Mingren (1562–1621)
Chapter Two: The First Translators of European Texts: Yohoken (ca. 1510–1596) and Xu Ruohan (ca. 1670–1740)
Chapter Three: Noble Promoters of Military Reforms: Ōtomo Sōrin (1530–1587) and Xu Guangqi (1562–1633)
Chapter Four: “Grace” and “Brilliance”: Hosokawa Garasha (1563–1600) and Candida Xu (1607–1680)
Chapter Five: Pioneers of Comparative Philosophy: Fukansai (1565–1621) and Yang Tingyun (ca. 1557–1628)
Chapter Six: The First Native Priests: Kimura (1565–1622) and Luo Wenzao (1617–1691)
Chapter Seven: The First Travelers to Europe: Itō Mancio (1569–1612) and Zheng Manuo (1633–1673)
Chapter Eight: Precursors of the Internationalization of the Script: Dourado (1567–1620) and Wang Zheng (1571–1644)
Chapter Nine: The First Editors of Bilingual Dictionaries: Martin Hara (1568–1629) and Huang Risheng (1679–1716)
Chapter Ten: The Earliest Celebrities in Europe: Hasekura Tsunenaga (1571–1622) and Shen Fuzong (ca. 1658–1692)
Chapter Eleven: Western Art in the East: Jacobus Niva (Ni Yagu, 1579–1638) and You Wenhui (1575–1633)
Chapter Twelve: Hope of the Suppressed: Amakusa Shirō (1622–1638) and Wang Maria (ca. 1855–1900)
Chapter Thirteen: Interrogation of a Messenger from the West: Arai Hakuseki (1657–1725) and Kangxi (r. 1662–1722)
Chapter Fourteen: Early Students of Western Medicine: Gao Leisi (1732–1795), Yang Dewang (1733–1798), and Sugita Genpaku (1733–1817)
Chapter Fifteen: The First Teachers of Western Languages: Ogata Kōan (1810–1863) and Xue Madou (ca. 1780–1860)
Chapter Sixteen: Organizers of Modern Media: Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835–1901) and Ying Lianzhi (1866–1926)
Chapter Seventeen: Creators of Universities: Yan Yongjing (1838–1898) and Niijima Jō (1843–1890)
Chapter Eighteen: Entrepreneurs and Philanthropists: Shibusawa Eiichi (1840–1931) and Lu Bohong (1875–1937)
Chapter Nineteen: The First Female Physicians: Ogino Ginko (1851–1913) and Jin Yamei (1864–1934)
Chapter Twenty: Pioneers of Women’s Education: Tsuda Umeko (1864–1929) and Zeng Baosun (1893–1978)
Chapter Twenty-One: Faith on the Way to Inculturation: Uemura Masahisa (1858–1925) and Zhao Zichen (T.C. Chao, 1888–1979)
Chapter Twenty-Two: Fathers of Constitutional Law: Ume Kenjirō (1860–1910) and Wu Jingxiong (1899–1986)
Chapter Twenty-Three: Creators of an Image of the East: Nitobe Inazō (1862–1933) and Gu Hongming (1857–1928)
Chapter Twenty-Four: Independent Prophets: Uchimura Kanzō (1861–1930) and Wang Mingdao (1900–1991)
Chapter Twenty-Five: Pioneers in the Study of History: Saeki Yoshirō (1871–1965) and Chen Yuan (1880–1971)
Chapter Twenty-Six: The First Students of Classical Hebrew: Kotsuji Setsuzō (1887–1965) and Li Rongfang (1899–1973)
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Indigenization of Christian Art: Chen Yuandu (1903–1967) and Watanabe Sadao (1913–1996)
Chapter Twenty-Eight: A Life for the Poor: Wu Yongbo (1916–2002) and Kitahara Satoko (1929–1958)
Conclusion: Two Nations on the Way to Modernity

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.