The Chinese Gazette in European Sources
Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty
Published on 3. February 2022
Book
Hardback
364 pages
978-90-04-47270-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Chinese gazette as a publicly available government publication was distributed in a variety of formats since the twelfth century. Little is known, however, about its form and content before 1800. By looking at China from the periphery, this study shows how European sources offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette, as translated by European missionaries, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers. It thus joined a global public much earlier than so far assumed.
Reviews / Votes
"The Chinese Gazette in European Sources has succeeded well in presenting a source and guide to this genre of Chinese sources and in pointing out the historical significance of early modern global communication." - R. Po-chia Hsia, Journal of Jesuit Studies 10 (2023)."With detailed documentation and historical narrative, this book shows that the gazettes were not only read by the Chinese bureaucracy but were also known to a wider public beyond the literati network in the early Qing Dynasty, which included Europeans in China who not only actively read the gazettes but also became writers and translators in the global information network. Through their translations of the gazettes sent to Europe, information about China reached the global public earlier than had previously assumed. In addition, this book provides specific information on these European-sourced Chinese gazettes, which facilitates subsequent research." -Wei Xiong, Religioous Studies Review, 47/4 (2021).
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-47270-9 (9789004472709)
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Person
Nicolas Standaert, Ph. D. (1984), Leiden University, is Professor of Sinology at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He has published widely on Sino-European cultural contacts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.