Discovering China
European Interpretations in the Enlightenment
Published on 17. December 1992
Book
Hardback
243 pages
978-1-878822-14-7 (ISBN)
Description
Studies of the reaction of European thinkers of the Enlightenment - Leibniz, Wolff, Hegel, Kant, et al -to Chinese culture and ideas.
From the late sixteenth century on, with the sending of Jesuit missionaries to China, the West had the fortune of receiving first-hand reports about China from educated persons trained in the philosophy and sciences of the day. What these men said and wrote stirred some leading minds in Europe, among them Leibniz, Wolff and Kant. The essays in this volume, studies of what Western thinkers in the Enlightenment said and wrote about China, are important for everyone interested in East-West intellectual exchanges, for the ideas and prejudices of the shapers of the Western mind continue to the present day to influence Western relations with China.
Contributors: Walter W. Davis, Knud Lundbaek, Arnold H. Rowbotham, David E. Mungello, Daniel J. Cook, Henry Rosemont Jr., Donald F. Lach, Johanna M. Menzel, R.C. Bald, Arthur F. Wright.
From the late sixteenth century on, with the sending of Jesuit missionaries to China, the West had the fortune of receiving first-hand reports about China from educated persons trained in the philosophy and sciences of the day. What these men said and wrote stirred some leading minds in Europe, among them Leibniz, Wolff and Kant. The essays in this volume, studies of what Western thinkers in the Enlightenment said and wrote about China, are important for everyone interested in East-West intellectual exchanges, for the ideas and prejudices of the shapers of the Western mind continue to the present day to influence Western relations with China.
Contributors: Walter W. Davis, Knud Lundbaek, Arnold H. Rowbotham, David E. Mungello, Daniel J. Cook, Henry Rosemont Jr., Donald F. Lach, Johanna M. Menzel, R.C. Bald, Arthur F. Wright.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Rochester
United States
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-878822-14-7 (9781878822147)
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Persons
Julia Ching, Willard G. Oxtoby
Content
China, the Confucian ideal, and the European Age of Enlightenment, Walter W. davis; the image of neo-Confucianism in "Confucius Sinarum Philosophus", Knud Lundbaek; the Jesuit figurists and 18th century religious thought, Arnold Rowbotham; Malebranche and Chinese philosophy - some recent studies on the confluence of Chinese and Western intellectual history; the pre-established harmony between Leibnitz and Chinese thought, Daniel J. Cook and Henry Rosemont, Jr; Leibniz and Chinas - the sinop=hilism of Christian Wolff (1679-1754); the sinophilism of J.H.G. Justi, Johanna M.. Menzel; Sir William Chambers and he Chinese garden, R.C. Bald; the study of Chinese Civilization, Arthur F. Wright;