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The Chinese Gazette in European Sources
Joining the Global Public in the Early and Mid-Qing Dynasty
Series: - Sinica Leidensia, Volume: 155
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The Chinese gazette as a publicly available government publication was distributed in a variety of formats since the twelfth century. Little is known, however, about its form and content before 1800. By looking at China from the periphery, this study shows how European sources offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette, as translated by European missionaries, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers. It thus joined a global public much earlier than so far assumed.
Nicolas Standaert, Ph. D. (1984), Leiden University, is Professor of Sinology at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He has published widely on Sino-European cultural contacts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
"The Chinese Gazette in European Sources has succeeded well in presenting a source and guide to this genre of Chinese sources and in pointing out the historical significance of early modern global communication." - R. Po-chia Hsia, Journal of Jesuit Studies 10 (2023).
"With detailed documentation and historical narrative, this book shows that the gazettes were not only read by the Chinese bureaucracy but were also known to a wider public beyond the literati network in the early QÄ«ng Dynasty, which included Europeans in China who not only actively read the gazettes but also became writers and translators in the global information network. Through their translations of the gazettes sent to Europe, information about China reached the global public earlier than had previously assumed. In addition, this book provides specific information on these European-sourced Chinese gazettes, which facilitates subsequent research." -Wei Xiong, Religioous Studies Review, 47/4 (2021).
"With detailed documentation and historical narrative, this book shows that the gazettes were not only read by the Chinese bureaucracy but were also known to a wider public beyond the literati network in the early QÄ«ng Dynasty, which included Europeans in China who not only actively read the gazettes but also became writers and translators in the global information network. Through their translations of the gazettes sent to Europe, information about China reached the global public earlier than had previously assumed. In addition, this book provides specific information on these European-sourced Chinese gazettes, which facilitates subsequent research." -Wei Xiong, Religioous Studies Review, 47/4 (2021).
Historians interested in China and the spread of itss history to Europe; intercultural history; book and publication history, history of newspapers; Qing historians; historians of the European Enlightenment and early modern European intellectual history;