Chinesia
About this book
Our perception of the Others is based on our conception of ourselves. In theory the Others should be different. If necessary, we alter their images to accommodate the apperception of ourselves. Thus Chinesia, an amalgamation of facts and fiction, was created. In order to avoid previous repetition of stereotypes and prejudices, the present study re-examines the parameters which created Chinesia and traces its development to the end of the 18th century. The literary study begins with the analysis of European dramatization of the Manchu Conquest of China and its subsequent fictional Christianization. Then the Jesuit plays with Chinese themes are discussed, for the first time in literary history. Also analyzed is the reception of the Chinese Orphan motive in European literature which was the turning point in downgrading China, and subsequently Montesquieu's impact on Albrecht von Haller's novel "Usong" is examined. Thereafter, the study scrutinizes the contradictory positions of Herder and von Seckendorff (or Goethe, for that matter) in Weimar. The book concludes with a concise analysis of the 'eschatological sinism' of Hegel, Marx and Weber to indicate the development of the later centuries.
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Preface
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Theorizing Sinism: An Analysis of Chinesia
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History as Fiction, Fiction as History: The Manchu Conquest of China in Dutch and English Drama of the 17th Century
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The Chinesian Vision: From the Image of China as a Nation of Christian Converts in the German Fiction of the 17th Century to That of an Ideal State Ruled by Confucianized Tartars in the Drama of Voltaire
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The Transformation of Chinesia from Jesuitical Fiction to Jesuit College Drama: A Preliminary Survey
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The Transplanted Chinese Orphan In England, France, Germany, Italy And his Repatriation to Hong Kong
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Sinism Within a Despotic Oriental Utopia: From Montesquieu's l'Esprit des lois to Albrecht von Haller's Political Novel Usong
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Chinesia in Weimar: The Transition From J.G. Herder's Sinophobia to S. von Seckendorff's Sino-Romanticism
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In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Eschatological Sinism of Hegel, Marx, and Weber
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Bibliography
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