China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938 by Chris Murray

China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938

Chris Murray

288 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers turned to classics for answers. In poetry, essays, and travel narratives, ancient Greece and Rome lent interpretative paradigms and narrative shape to Britain's information on the Middle Ki...

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