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Title Encountering China : early modern European responses / edited by Rachana Sachdev and Qingjun Li.

Publication Info.	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2012]
	2012

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Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (231 pages).
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
Series	Apercus: histories texts cultures : a Bucknell series
	Apercus: histories texts cultures : a Bucknell series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	European responses to child abandonment, sale of children and social welfare policies in Ming China / Rachana Sachdev -- Of golden lilies and gentlewomen : constructions of Chinese women in early modern European travel narratives / Qingjun Li -- Earlier moderns : the novel form as national development in China and Europe / Daniel Dooghan -- "A strong resemblance" : Samuel Richardson, Chinese talent-beauty novels, and a secret origin of "world literature" / Ning Ma -- 'Magicians, enchanters, and professional crooks' : early modern understandings of Daoism / Ronnie Littlejohn -- Buddhism and idolatry / Terry Logan Mazurak.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Europeans -- China -- History.
	Travelers' writings, European.
	European literature -- Chinese influences.
	Chinese literature -- European influences.
	China -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
	China -- Foreign public opinion, European.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Sachdev, Rachana, editor.
	Li, Qingjun, editor.
Other Form:	Print version: Encountering China : early modern European responses. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2012] x, 220 pages ; 23 cm. Apercus: histories texts cultures : a Bucknell series 9781611484823 (DLC)10856953
ISBN	9781611484380 (cloth : alk. paper)
	1611484383 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9781611484823 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	1611484820 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9781611484397 (electronic bk.)