Chinese Sympathies Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans-German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular-identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations...

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Main Author: Purdy, Daniel Leonhard (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cornell University Press 2021
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