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Enlightenment Geographies: Images of China in John Bell’s Travels (1763)
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Enlightenment Geographies: Images of China in John Bell’s Travels (1763)
Category: Early Modern History; Sinology
Language: English
In 1763 John Bell, a Scottish physician and traveller, published an account of his journey to China across the Silk Road (“Travels from St. Petersburg, in Russia, to diverse parts of Asia”), made some 40 years earlier (1719—1722) in the suite of a Russian embassy sent by Peter the Great to the Kangxi emperor.
Table of contents
Introduction: China and the eighteenth-century imagological discourse
Chapter 1. John Bell: His predecessors, his journey and his outlook
Chapter 2. “I should like them very well for neighbours”: Encounters on the way to China
Chapter 3. “All the people in Pekin were assembled to see us”: Entering China proper
Chapter 4. Representation of the Chinese language: Eighteenth-century considerations and fallacies
Chapter 5. “The common people are generally idolaters”: Chinese religion and the Christian influence
Chapter 6. The Jesuit Missionaries in the imperial capital
Chapter 7. “The behaviour of the Chinese is quite contrary to that of the Europeans”: John Bell’s representation of the differences between China and the West
Chapter 8. “They gave me a dish of tea in every shop”: Images of Chinese daily life
Conclusion
Bibliography
| Details | |
| Publisher | St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 164 |
| Illustrations | b/w figures |
| Binding | paperback |
| ISBN | 978-619-208-229-1 |
| Creation date | 2020 |
| Size | 14 х 21 cm |
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