Chinese Landscape in the Iberian Literary Vision of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Author: Macau Cultural Services Bureau
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This book aims to introduce the public to the extraordinary chapters from the vast works written by Portuguese and Spanish authors in the 16th and 17th centuries. For this purpose, the selected articles will reveal various aspects of the relationship between Portugal and China, the views of the Iberians on China and the Chinese, and certain dimensions of Macau's history. From the perspective of historical documents, most of the material in the book represents the earliest records of China by Portuguese and Spanish people. How to place China in the world and break through the confines of Eurocentrism to redraw the history of globalization is an unresolved issue. The Landscape of China in the Iberian Literary Horizon of the 16th and 17th Centuries provides us with primary historical documents. These documents not only offer new sources for a deeper understanding of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China but also present the historical interactions between the East and West at the beginning of globalization, opening up a new perspective. Through this book, some Westerners can see the attitudes they held when they first arrived in the East four hundred years ago. History is a mirror.