Printing and publishing Chinese religion and philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595-1700 the Chinese imprint
"Trude Dijkstra discusses how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in printed works produced in the Dutch Republic between 1595 and 1700. By focusing on books, newspapers, learned journals, and pamphlets, this study sheds new light on the cultural encounter between China and western...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
Brill
2021, 2021
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| Series: | Library of the written word
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "Trude Dijkstra discusses how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in printed works produced in the Dutch Republic between 1595 and 1700. By focusing on books, newspapers, learned journals, and pamphlets, this study sheds new light on the cultural encounter between China and western Europe in the early modern period. Form, content, and material-technical aspects of different media in Dutch and French are analysed, providing new insights into the ways in which readers could take note of Chinese religion and philosophy. This study thereby demonstrates that there was no singular image of Chinese religion and philosophy, but rather a varied array of notions on the subject"-- |
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| Item Description: | Originally presented as author's Thesis (Ph. D.--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2019) under the title The Chinese imprint |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9004473297 9789004426399 |