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A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. 1368 maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of European mariners and the shock of the Opium Wars. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of world history, China's current rise evokes an earlier epoch, one that sheds light on where Beijing is heading today. Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe palaces of silk and jade in Beijing's Forbidden City. Malay legends recount stories of Chinese princesses arriving in Melaka with gifts of porcelain and gold. During Europe's Age of Exploration, Iberian mariners charted new passages to China, which the Dutch and British East India Companies transformed into lucrative tea routes. But during the British Industrial Revolution, the rise of steam engines and factories allowed the export of the very commodities once imported from China. By the end of the Opium Wars and the arrival of Commodore Perry in Japan, Chinese and Japanese reformers called for their own industrial revolutions to propel them into the twentieth century. What has the world learned from China since the Ming, and how did China reemerge in the 1970s as a manufacturing superpower? Akhtar's book provides much-needed context for understanding China's rise today and the future of its connections with both the West and a resurgent Asia.
Age of Exploration. --- Chinese manufacturing. --- Dutch and British East India Companies. --- Indian Ocean. --- Jesuits in China. --- Ming and Qing Dynasties. --- South China Sea. --- deindustrialization. --- opium wars. --- silk and spice routes.
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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.
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Book history --- Library research --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- China --- 027 <51> --- 873.4 --- 271.5 <51> --- 271.5-9 --- 02 <51> --- Academic collection --- S01/0400 --- S13B/0410 --- 951 --- 271.53051 --- Algemene bibliotheken--China --- Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur --- Jezuïeten--China --- Jezuïeten: missies --- Bibliotheekwezen--China --- China: Bibliography and reference--Libraries, library-catalogues, librarianship, archives --- China: Christianity--Jesuits (incl. Rites Controversy) --- History China --- Religion Jesuits in China --- 02 <51> Bibliotheekwezen--China --- 271.5-9 Jezuïeten: missies --- 271.5 <51> Jezuïeten--China --- 873.4 Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur
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"This book contains two manuscript texts of Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623-1688), written in 1676 in Beijing to the attention of the Russian tsar, and brought by the legate Nicolas Spathary Milescu to Moscow. Both texts represent the oldest layer of the Astronomia Europaea corpus, and were until recently forgotten. Their recent discovery was in the form of a manuscript copy, which Chysanthos Notaras had made them in Moscow in 1693. The manuscripts have since then been kept in library of the Metochion of the patriarchate of Jerusalem in Constantinople. In this publication, the authors are reconstituting the Latin text, translating it in English and annotating it. In the Introduction, the manuscripts are situated within the corpus of Verbiest's Latin writings, and are depicted both the parts that were afterwards re-cycled in the well-known Compendium Latinum and Astronomia Europaea edition (Dilingen, 1687), and those that were eventually omitted. Moreover, the story of the Moscow manuscript, and especially that of its Constantinopolitan copy - until now the only remaining testimonium of it - is traced. This description also reveals an until now unknown reception of 17th century Jesuit astronomy, mechanics and physics in post-Byzantine Russia and South-Eastern Europe."--Publisher's description.
Astronomy --- Verbiest, Ferdinand --- Astronomers --- History --- Verbiest, Ferdinand, --- Jesuits --- Academic collection --- S13B/0411 --- S13B/0413 --- 509.03 --- 271.53051 --- China: Christianity--Ferdinand Verbiest --- China: Christianity--Scientific activities and works of SJ --- Sciences History (1500- ) --- Religion Jesuits in China --- Physical sciences --- Space sciences --- Physical scientists --- Nan, Huai-jen, --- Nan, Huairen, --- 南懷仁, --- Compagnie de Jésus --- Compañia de Jesus --- Gesellschaft Jesu --- Jesuitas --- Jesuiten --- Jesuiti --- Jezuïten --- Jésuites --- Paters Jezuïten --- Societeit van Jezus --- Society of Jesus --- Societas Jesu --- Astronomy [Chinese ] --- 17th century --- Mechanics --- Science --- Early works to 1800 --- Verbiest, Ferdinand $c S.J. --- 페르비스트 --- フェルビースト, フェルジナンド --- 南, 怀仁 --- 南, 懷仁 --- イエズス会 --- カトリック イエズス会 --- Astronomers - China - History - 17th century --- Astronomy - China - History - 17th century --- Verbiest, Ferdinand, - 1623-1688
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History of Asia
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Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Portugal
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