by David Porter (Author)
From the first successful Jesuit mission to China in 1583, China's cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, and social critics. This book traces recurrent patterns in the European imaginative constructions of China through four illuminating spheres of encounter: linguistic, theological, aesthetic, and economic.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 31 Jan 2002
ISBN 10: 0804732035
ISBN 13: 9780804732031