Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

Chinese Sympathies Analyzes Key German Literary Texts By Placing Scholarship On Early Modern Chinese Empires And Missionaries In Conjunction With German Media Theory From The Last Twenty-five Years (most Notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy Traces A Connection From Baroque-era Missionary Reports That Accommodated Christianity With Confucianism To Goethe's Concept Of World Literature, Bridged By Enlightenment Debates Over Cosmopolitanism And Sympathy.-- Provided By Publisher.