Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe / by Purdy, Daniel Leonhard

Table of Contents: “…10 World Literature and Goethe's Chinese Poetry --…”
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Chinese sympathies media, missionaries, and world literature from Marco Polo to Goethe by Purdy, Daniel L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: sympathy and orientalism -- Marco Polo's fabulous imperial connections -- Jesuit channels between Europe and Asia -- The genealogy of compassionate reading -- News of the Ming dynasty's collapse -- Vondel's tragic Chinese emperor -- Wieland's secret history of cosmopolitanism -- Adam Smith and the Chinese earthquake -- Goethe reads the Jesuits -- Weimar pairings: idealism and Buddhism, Kant and the Jesuits -- World literature and Goethe's Chinese poetry…”
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