The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

Released on by Jonathan D. Spence
preview-18

  • The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds Book Detail

  • Author : Jonathan D. Spence
  • Release Date : 1999-10-17
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 308
  • ISBN 13 : 0393247708
  • File Size : 44,44 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds by Jonathan D. Spence PDF Summary

Book Description: "Like everything else written by Jonathan Spence, The Chan's Great Continent is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in China. Spence is one of the greatest Sinologists of our time, and his work is both authoritative and highly readable." —Los Angeles Times Book Review China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explores how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction of China and the mighty Khan, Kublai, in the 1270s to the China sightings of three twentieth-century writers of acknowledged genius-Kafka, Borges, and Calvino-Spence conveys Western thought on China through a remarkable array of expression. Peopling Spence's account are Iberian adventurers, Enlightenment thinkers, spinners of the dreamy cult of Chinoiserie, and American observers such as Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Ezra Pound, and Eugene O'Neill. Taken together, these China sightings tell us as much about the self-image of the West as about China. "Wonderful. . . . Spence brilliantly demonstrates [how] generation after generation of Westerners [have] asked themselves, 'What is it . . . that held this astonishing, diverse, and immensely populous land together?' "--New York Times Book Review

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Return to Dragon Mountain

Return to Dragon Mountain

File Size : 57,57 MB
Total View : 2301 Views
DOWNLOAD

“Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence.” (The New Republic) Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings

How the Mind Works

How the Mind Works

File Size : 82,82 MB
Total View : 4710 Views
DOWNLOAD

Explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life.

Fateful Choices

Fateful Choices

File Size : 6,6 MB
Total View : 5170 Views
DOWNLOAD

In 1940 the world was on a knife-edge. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of the Second World War meant that anything could happen. For the aggress