1999, ISBN: 039331989X

[EAN: 9780393319897], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company], 302 pages. Cover wornLike everything else written by Jonathan Spence, The Chan's Great Continent is an absolu… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780393319897], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company], 302 pages. Cover wornLike 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 Sinolog ists of our time, and his work is both authoritative and highly r eadable. ?Los Angeles Times Book Review China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. Wi th his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explo res how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Rangi ng from Marco Polo's own depiction of China and the mighty Khan, Kublai, in the 1270s to the China sightings of three twentieth-ce ntury writers of acknowledged genius-Kafka, Borges, and Calvino-S pence 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 Chinoise rie, 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 popu lous land together?' --New York Times Book Review Editorial Revi ews Review Like everything else written by Jonathan Spence, The Chan's Great Continent is an absolute must-read for anyone intere sted in China. Spence is one of the greatest Sinologists of our t ime, and his work is both authoritative and highly readable. -- L os Angeles Times Book Review Wonderful. . . . Spence brilliantly demonstrates [how] generation after generation of Westerners [ha ve] asked themselves, 'What is it . . . that held this astonishin g, diverse, and immensely populous land together?' -- New York Ti mes Book Review About the Author Jonathan D. Spence (1936?2021) was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, where he ta ught for more than forty years. He was awarded MacArthur and Gugg enheim Fellowships, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. The Sea rch for Modern China won the Lionel Gelber Award and the Kiriyama Book Prize., Books<

ISBN: 9780393319897

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