When True Love Came to China

by Lynn Pan and Pan Lynn

Most people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love; that romantic love is universal, quintessentially human. Such a supposition has to be able to meet three challenges. It has to justify its underlying assumption that all cultures mean the same thing by the word 'love' regardless of language. It has to engage with the scholarly debate on whether or not romantic love was invented in Europe and is uniquely Western. And it must be able...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888208802
• ISBN13: 9789888208807
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"