Chinese Sympathies

by Daniel Leonhard Purdy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501759744
• ISBN13: 9781501759741
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"