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“This book is a delight: smart, well-written, full of intellectual and historical surprise and illumination. Luca’s investigation of the rhetorical continuum that has assigned to ‘China’ the role of a visual other for European thought does what all the best books do: it restores to the past its opaque and fascinating difference, while revealing in it the naked, germinating seeds of our present.” (Eric Hayot, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
“There have been quite a few accounts of the image of China in Renaissance Europe, but none has addressed in such detail the fascination that the Chinese language and its written characters exercised, and with such erudition and elegance. Luca’s book will become essential for anyone interested in this topic.” (Joan-Pau Rubiés, ICREA Research Professor, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain, and author of Travellers and Cosmographers: Studies in the History of Early-Modern Travel and Ethnology)
“Dinu Luca’s extraordinary study of the first few centuries of European response to the Chinese language and writing system integrates far more texts than any other account I have seen, restoring less well-known texts to their place in the genealogy of ideas. Luca restores the polyphony among discordant accounts. China scholars, cultural critics, historians of linguistics, ethnographers, and grammatologists will find much here to feed their reflections.” (Haun Saussy, University Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, USA)
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Book Title: The Chinese Language in European Texts
Book Subtitle: The Early Period
Authors: Dinu Luca
Series Title: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50291-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51225-3Published: 20 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50291-9Published: 19 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-7254
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7262
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 242
Number of Illustrations: 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Literature, European Literature, Literary History