Purdy, Daniel L., <br/><br/>
Chinese Sympathies :   Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe /  
Daniel Leonhard Purdy. 
 - 1 online resource (420 pages):   illustrations 
 - Signale: modern German letters, cultures, and thought .
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> "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 missionary reports that accommodated Christianity with Confucianism to Goethe's concept of world literature, bridged by Enlightenment debates over cosmopolitanism and sympathy."-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781501759758 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 <br/>Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 --Philosophy.<br/>Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 --Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sympathy<br/>Philosophy<br/>Orientalism<br/>Intellectual life<br/>German literature--Chinese influences<br/>Civilization, Western--Chinese influences<br/>LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German<br/>Litterature allemande--Influence chinoise.<br/>Sympathie--Histoire.--Europe<br/>Orientalisme--Histoire.--Europe<br/>German literature--Chinese influences.<br/>Sympathy--History.--Europe<br/>Orientalism--History.--Europe<br/>Civilization, Western--Chinese influences.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe<br/>China<br/>Chine--Vie intellectuelle.<br/>Europe--Vie intellectuelle.<br/>China--Intellectual life.<br/>Europe--Intellectual life.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History<br/>Electronic books.