- Rereading Travellers to the East
- A cura di Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, Davide Trentacoste
Afterword. Notes on Rereading and Re-enacting “China”
- Giovanni Tarantino
- © 2022 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0.12
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).
- Keywords:
- Orientalism,
- China,
- Travellers,
- Antonioni,
- Jean Yanne,
- Ballet des Porcelaines,
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Informazioni sul capitolo
Titolo del capitolo
Afterword. Notes on Rereading and Re-enacting “China”
Autori
Giovanni Tarantino
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-579-0.12
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
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Informazioni bibliografiche
Titolo del libro
Rereading Travellers to the East
Sottotitolo del libro
Shaping Identities and Building the Nation in Post-unification Italy
Curatori
Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, Davide Trentacoste
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
232
Anno di pubblicazione
2022
Copyright
© 2022 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
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
Collana
Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History
ISSN della collana
2975-0393
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2975-0261