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Hardcover China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938 Book

ISBN: 0198767013

ISBN13: 9780198767015

China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938

Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers turned to classics for answers. In poetry, essays, and travel narratives, ancient Greece and Rome lent interpretative paradigms and narrative shape to Britain's information on the Middle Kingdom. While memoirists of the diplomatic missions in 1793 and 1816 used classical ideas to introduce Chinese concepts, Roman history held ominous precedents for Sino-British relations according to Edward...

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