The Story of a Stele
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ISBN：
9789622098954
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定價：
HK$ 295.00
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作者：
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語言：
英語
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出版社：
Hong Kong University Press
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分類：
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出版日期：
2008-01-01
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發行日期：
2008-02-04
"Keevak writes splendidly and eruditely, and with a sense for the 'other' that is both delicate and deep. This book will delight anyone interested in the life and vicissitudes of cultural monuments." -- Nicola Di Cosmo, Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, School of Historical Study, Institute for Advanced Study
• A lively and perceptive account of how Western Protestant, Catholic, and imperialist ideological lenses distorted views of the Nestorian monument, a large limestone tablet discovered in Xi'an in 1625.
• Points out ironically that China was viewed, from the very beginning of the period of Western presence in the empire, as little more than an extension of European prejudices about the superiority of their own cultures, religions, and conceptual paradigms.
• Will appeal to all those interested in East Asian colonialism and in the vagaries of cross-cultural contact between East and West.
Michael Keevak is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan.
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