Russia and "le rêve chinois" : China in eighteenth-century Russian literature
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Russia and "le rêve chinois" : China in eighteenth-century Russian literature
(Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century / edited by Theodore Besterman, 224)
Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution, 1984
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Bibliography: p. [153]-173
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
A note to the reader
Introduction
1. The missionaries and the Middle Kingdom
2. Chinese visitors in Russia
3. Other roads to Cathay
A. Diverse travellers
B. The embassies from Russia
4. The land of the sage: China in the belletristic literature of eighteenth-century Russia
5. China and the intellectuals
A. The scholars
B. The philosophes
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
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