5月18日英国研究中心讲座：Western Responses to China in the Early Modern Period

Western Responses to China in the Early Modern Period: Context and Themes

主讲人：Dr Ann Talbot

The author of The Great Ocean of Knowledge: the Influence of Travel of Travel Literature on the Work of John Locke, (Leiden: Brill, 2010)

时间：2015年5月18日下午4：00-6：00

地点：北外东院英语楼118会议室

主办单位：国际儒学联合会和北京外国语大学-中国文化走出协同创新中心；

承办单位：中国海外汉学研究中心、英语学院英国研究中心

Dr Ann Talbot is the author of The Great Ocean of Knowledge: the Influence of Travel of Travel Literature on the Work of John Locke, (Leiden: Brill, 2010).

She has published a number of articles on John Locke including “Locke’s Travel Books”, Locke Studies (2007); “Seventeenth Century Images of Native Americans: John Locke’s Reading of Gabriel Sagard and its Influence on his Work”, Transatlantic Conflict and Consensus, Culture, History and Politics (2009).

She received a PhD from the University of Bolton in 2008 and previously studied at the University of Manchester. She has taught at Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, the Universities of Manchester and Leeds.

About the lecture:

Increasingly detailed reports of Chinese history and culture began to reach Europe from the beginning of the seventeenth century. Christian missionaries were establishing themselves in Beijing at that point. They began to make an in depth study of the country. Their books provided Europeans with the first relatively accurate information about China since the fourteenth century. Portuguese and Spanish merchants had been trading with China for some time but they guarded their knowledge of China’s ports jealously and knew little about the interior of the country or its way of life. In the course of the seventeenth century Europe was opened up to the influence of Chinese ideas in an unprecedented way. The purpose of this lecture is to outline the response to those ideas. The range of those ideas was enormous. China had something to contribute to everything from philosophy to gardening. I do not intend to deal with all of those areas today. Chinese influences in gardening alone would require a lecture to themselves. My aim is to outline an approach or a method which in many respects differs from that of my predecessors in the field. In broad terms the lecture will be thematic and will focus on context both historical and textual.