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Provides a comparative study of five Western embassies to China between the 13th and 18th centuries
Offers key insights into the development of global modernity through Europe’s early encounter with China
Focuses on the five key concepts of peace, empire, trade, religion, and diplomacy in the Europe-China encounter
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This text is a timely and wide-ranging study providing essential background to the development of global modernity through the European encounter with China. Considering differing notions of peace, empire, trade, religion, and diplomacy as touchstones in the relations between China and Europe on mutuality, the book examines five encounters with France, Portugal, Holland, the pope, and Russia between 1248 and 1720, and reflects on concepts that the West took for granted but which did not successfully cross over into the Chinese world. This cutting edge text provides key insights into the cultural and political conflict which lay at the heart of early Chinese-European relations, as the West's understanding of the truth and appropriateness of its cultural norms was confronted by China's norms and beliefs.
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Book Title: Embassies to China
Book Subtitle: Diplomacy and Cultural Encounters Before the Opium Wars
Authors: Michael Keevak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3972-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3971-3Published: 05 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5012-2Published: 11 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3972-0Published: 21 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 162
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Asian Languages, History of China