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The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds by Jonathan Spence

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Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. No ...
Release Year
1999
Country/Region of Manufacture
China
ISBN
9780393319897

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
039331989X
ISBN-13
9780393319897
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038308447

Product Key Features

Book Title
Chan's Great Continent : China in Western Minds
Number of Pages
302 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
Asia / China
Genre
History
Author
Jonathan D. Spence
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-010823
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
951
Synopsis
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, 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, "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
LC Classification Number
DS706

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