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Chris Murray

China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome

Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938

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Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers turned to classics for answers. In poetry, essays, and travel narratives, ancient Greece and Rome lent interpretative paradigms and narrative shape to Britain's information on the Middle Kingdom. While memoirists of the diplomatic missions in 1793 and 1816 used classical ideas to introduce Chinese concepts, Roman history held ominous precedents for Sino-British relations according to Edward Gibbon and SamuelTaylor Coleridge. John Keats illuminated how peculiar such contemporary processes of Orientalist knowledge-formation were. In Britain, popular opinion on Chinese culture wavered dur… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-107973-3
  • EAN: 9780191079733
  • Produktnummer: 34855421
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 22'506 KB

Über den Autor


Chris Murray is Lecturer in Literary Studies at Monash University. He is the author of Tragic Coleridge (2013), and Crippled Immortals (2018) - a memoir about Zen martial-arts masters - and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

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