Embassies to China
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Embassies to China

Diplomacy and Cultural Encounters Before the Opium Wars

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Embassies to China

Diplomacy and Cultural Encounters Before the Opium Wars

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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 insightsinto thecultural and political conflict which lay at the heart ofearly Chinese-European relations, as the West'sunderstanding of the truth and appropriateness of its cultural norms was confronted by China's norms and beliefs.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9789811039720
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Embassies to China
  2. 1 Introduction
  3. 2 Making “Peace” with the East
  4. 3 Portugal and “Empire”
  5. 4 Holland and “Trade”
  6. 5 The Pope’s “Religion”
  7. 6 Russia and “Diplomacy”
  8. 7 Epilogue
  9. Index