Chinese Gazette in European Sources

Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty

AvNicolas Standaert

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

The Chinese gazette as a publicly available government publication was distributed in a variety of formats since the twelfth century. Little is known, however, about its form and content before 1800. By looking at China from the periphery, this study shows how European sources offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette, as translated by European missionaries, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers. It thus joined a global public much earlier than so far assumed.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-03
Mått:155 x 235 x 28 mm
Vikt:732 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Sinica Leidensia
Antal sidor:350
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004472709

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Nicolas Standaert, Ph. D. (1984), Leiden University, is Professor of Sinology at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He has published widely on Sino-European cultural contacts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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"The Chinese Gazette in European Sources has succeeded well in presenting a source and guide to this genre of Chinese sources and in pointing out the historical significance of early modern global communication." - R. Po-chia Hsia, Journal of Jesuit Studies 10 (2023)."With detailed documentation and historical narrative, this book shows that the gazettes were not only read by the Chinese bureaucracy but were also known to a wider public beyond the literati network in the early Qīng Dynasty, which included Europeans in China who not only actively read the gazettes but also became writers and translators in the global information network. Through their translations of the gazettes sent to Europe, information about China reached the global public earlier than had previously assumed. In addition, this book provides specific information on these European-sourced Chinese gazettes, which facilitates subsequent research." -Wei Xiong, Religioous Studies Review, 47/4 (2021).