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"Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection from Baroque-era missionary reports that accommodated Christianity with Confucianism to Goethe's concept of world literature, bridged by Enlightenment debates over cosmopolitanism and sympathy."--

German literature --- Sympathy --- Orientalism --- Civilization, Western --- Chinese influences. --- History. --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, --- Philosophy. --- China --- Europe --- Intellectual life. --- East and West --- Pity --- Conduct of life --- Emotions --- Appeal to pity (Logical fallacy) --- German philosophy and China, media history of Jesuits in China, Goethe reads Chinese novels, chinese culture, The Catholic origins of Cosmopolitanism.