In Europe, the historical representation and narration of China and the Orient more in general from an outsider’s point of view has conjured up an exotic and a-historical image of a poetical, mystical and refined civilization. In Walpole’s Britain, for example, “the argument from the Chinese”—namely, the admiration for a prosperous and densely populated kingdom which did not belong to a single faith—was frequently used in religious disputes when claiming a wider or more coherent policy of tolerance or seeking to cut down the prerogatives of the clerical hierarchies. This chapter explores further Western uses of "the argument from the Chinese" in modern times and through different media (Antonioni; Yanne; Martin).
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Chapter Title
Afterword. Notes on Rereading and Re-enacting “China”
Authors
Giovanni Tarantino
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0.12
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2022
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Book Title
Rereading Travellers to the East
Book Subtitle
Shaping Identities and Building the Nation in Post-unification Italy
Editors
Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, Davide Trentacoste
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Number of Pages
232
Publication Year
2022
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0
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978-88-5518-578-3
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978-88-5518-579-0
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978-88-5518-580-6
Series Title
Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History
Series ISSN
2975-0393
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2975-0261