Continuum, Volume 4AMS Press, 1992 - French literature |
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... China , the Kingdom of the Center , focusing on its mountains and lakes , and on the Chinese vision of nature . He ... China had a considerable influence on seventeenth - century European views of China for several decades , as it ...
... China , the Kingdom of the Center , focusing on its mountains and lakes , and on the Chinese vision of nature . He ... China had a considerable influence on seventeenth - century European views of China for several decades , as it ...
Page 101
... China . China and Egypt had mysterious written languages , unknown histories , great accomplishments , and represented archetypes of order outside Christian or Graeco - Roman history . Ancient Egypt and contemporary China represented an ...
... China . China and Egypt had mysterious written languages , unknown histories , great accomplishments , and represented archetypes of order outside Christian or Graeco - Roman history . Ancient Egypt and contemporary China represented an ...
Page 140
... China . China emerges as a society of artifice , of surfaces , a society which remains profoundly immobile despite the changes in governing dynasties . Quinet presents China as an excessively rationalistic society , inclining to a ...
... China . China emerges as a society of artifice , of surfaces , a society which remains profoundly immobile despite the changes in governing dynasties . Quinet presents China as an excessively rationalistic society , inclining to a ...
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