France/China: Intercultural Imaginings

by Alex Hughes

Overview

China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated theirannee de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as the Jesuits, who arrived inL'Empire du Milieu in the late seventeenth century, and theTel Quel intellectuals, whose will to political pilgrimage took th

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351566704
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/13/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	116
File size:	464 KB

About the Author

Alex Hughes

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Abbreviations x

Introduction 1

1 Touching the Chinese World 10

2 (Un)Touched by China 33

3 Embodied Interculturalism 67

Conclusion 90

Bibliography 97

Index 103

Editorial Reviews

The author's scholarly and intriguing readings could be seen to invite us to look beyond the French framings of China to the texts of writers who know the country intimately.

Modern and Contemporary France , 497-98 - Rosalind Silvester