Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe /
"Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection from Baroque-era mi...
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Ithaca [New York]
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library,
2021.
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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