The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds
ISBN-13:
9780393319897
ISBN-10:
039331989X
Author:
Jonathan D. Spence
Publication date:
1999
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
302 pages
Category:
China
,
Asian History
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ISBN-13:
9780393319897
ISBN-10:
039331989X
Author:
Jonathan D. Spence
Publication date:
1999
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
302 pages
Category:
China
,
Asian History
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The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds (ISBN-13: 9780393319897 and ISBN-10: 039331989X), written by authors
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"Like everything else written by Jonathan Spence, The Chan's Great Continent is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in China. Spence is one of the greatest Sinologists of our time, and his work is both authoritative and highly readable." ―Los Angeles Times Book Review
China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explores how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction of China and the mighty Khan, Kublai, in the 1270s to the China sightings of three twentieth-century writers of acknowledged genius-Kafka, Borges, and Calvino-Spence conveys Western thought on China through a remarkable array of expression. Peopling Spence's account are Iberian adventurers, Enlightenment thinkers, spinners of the dreamy cult of Chinoiserie, and American observers such as Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Ezra Pound, and Eugene O'Neill. Taken together, these China sightings tell us as much about the self-image of the West as about China. "Wonderful. . . . Spence brilliantly demonstrates [how] generation after generation of Westerners [have] asked themselves, 'What is it . . . that held this astonishing, diverse, and immensely populous land together?' "--New York Times Book ReviewWe would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book
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