Why China Did Not Have a Renaissance - And Why That Matters: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

by Barbara Mittler and Thomas Maissen

Concepts of historical progress or decline and the idea of a cycle of historical movement have existed in many civilizations. In spite of claims that they be transnational or even universal, periodization schemes invariably reveal specific social and cultural predispositions.
Our dialogue, which brings together a Sinologist and a scholar of early modern History in Europe, considers periodization as a historical phenomenon, studying the case of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110573962
• ISBN13: 9783110573961
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary