Encountering China

Name: Encountering China
Price: 190 AUD
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9781611484380

Early Modern European Responses

Rachana Sachdev, Qinjun Li

$190

Hardback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We will update you on expected arrival time to us. If this delay is too long, please let us know within 2 business days and we can give you options regarding cancelling or adjusting your order. More details on cancelling your order can be found in our Terms of Trade.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

Bucknell University Press,U.S.
04 October 2012

European history; Asian history; Historical geography; Geographical discovery & exploration

Series: Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures

Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges, to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, though they were also critical of some local traditions and practices. Contributors engage critically with travelogues, treating them not just as occasional sources of historical information but as primary, literary texts deeply revelatory of the world they describe. Contributors reach back to the earliest European writings available on China in an effort to broaden and nuance our understanding of European contact with the Middle Kingdom in the early modern period. While the primary focus of these essays is the external gaze – European sources about China – contributors also tease out aspects of the Chinese world-view of the time, thus generating a conversation between Chinese literary and historical texts and European ones.

Edited by: Rachana Sachdev, Qinjun Li
Imprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 144mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 422g
ISBN: 9781611484380
ISBN 10: 1611484383
Series: Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 04 October 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachana Sachdev is associate professor of English and coordinator of Asian Studies at Susquehanna University. She has published several articles on early modern gynecological discourses, and her current research focuses on representations of infanticide and the position of children in Asia in early modern European travel writing. She is co-editing, with Todd Myers, Teaching Southeast Asia: Culture as a Medium for Meaning Across the Disciplines. Qingjun Li is assistant professor of Asian Studies and Chinese Language at Belmont University, Tennessee and also associate professor of English at Zhengzhou University, P.R. China, where she has been twice recognized as the Teacher of Excellence. She is author of three books and numerous articles. Her research interests are in Chinese American Literature, Women's Literature, and Comparative Literature.