Western Images of ChinaThis book discusses the ways in which Westerners, from the earliest times until the late 1980s, have perceived China--both the China of their own time and the China of the past. Examining sources from all media, the author demonstrates the enormous variety in Western images of China over the centuries--at certain times China has constituted a model for schools of thought in the West, while at others the country has been viewed as a threat. |
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User Review - datrappert - LibraryThingThis is an essential book for anyone interested in China. The author provides not a history of China itself, but a history of how Westerners have portrayed China. In reading this, the reader should also consider how this misperception of China continues to the present day. Read full review
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Early Western Images of China | 15 |
Jesuit Missionaries and the Philosophers | 28 |
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| Title | Western Images of China Oxford paperbacks |
| Authors | Colin Mackerras, Foundation Professor in the School of Asian and International Studies Colin Mackerras |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 10 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0195849159, 9780195849158 |
| Length | 337 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General |
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