Bringing Together China and the West (English/Chinese Edition)
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- ISBN 9789882372610
- Weight: 1780g
- Dimensions: 210 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2023
- Publisher: The Chinese University Press
- Publication City/Country: HK
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In 2023, The Chinese University of Hong Kong celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of its foundation. This occasion provides a moment for reflection on the historical and contemporary meanings of the university's mission "to combine tradition with modernity and to bring together China and the West." To this end, the celebrations include an exhibition of the University Library's burgeoning collection of Western rare books about China, which is recorded and contextualized in this catalogue. This splendid volume features books, maps, and manuscripts from the fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Among its treasures are some of the very finest works of early Sinology. Many of these were written by celebrated Jesuit missionaries like Matteo Ricci and Johann Adam Schall von Bell, who though few in number almost single-handedly founded modern Sinology through their deep engagement with early modern Chinese society and culture. As the writings of these missionaries percolated back to Europe, knowledge about China grew exponentially as European books about China became more accurate and detailed. Through its extended introduction, images, and descriptions, this catalogue illustrates the dynamic early history of the West's longstanding and profound interest in China, thereby giving members of the university community and the public at large an opportunity to consider how we might better “combine tradition with modernity and bring together China and the West.”
Stuart M. McManus is Assistant Professor of World History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and an Affiliated Scholar of the Faculty of Law's Centre for Transnational and Comparative Law. His published work ranges widely across global and legal history from antiquity to the present, and has been supported by prestigious fellowships at Princeton, Brown, Yale and the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, University of Chicago. He is the author of Empire of Eloquence: The Classical Rhetorical Tradition in Colonial Latin America and the Iberian World (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
