Michael Keevak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1180543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Keevak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Keevak |
| SIGNATURE | KEEVAK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Shadow Empires
Ashley Eva Millar. A Singular Case
Ashley Eva Millar’s excellent work A Singular Case: Debating China’s Political Economy in the European Enlightenment fills an important gap in early modern China-Europe studies because it is one of the first attempts to survey Western attitudes toward the commercial, governmental, and scientific aspects of Chinese society during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her focus is on the British and French traditions, and the book is divided in…
Early Encounters Between East Asia and Europe
Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel,Race and racism in modern East Asia
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael KeevakMichael Keevak is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University. He is the author of Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (Princeton University Press, 2011)
Novissima Sinica
Book Review| September 01 2013 Novissima Sinica Porter, David. The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2010). Pp. x+ 230. 26 ills.$90Yang, Chi-ming. Performing China: Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660-1760. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2011). Pp. ix+ 270. 16 ills.$70 Michael Keevak Michael Keevak Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Cent…
The Story of a Stele
Western readers have yet to come to terms with the fact that during much of history very little was ever “known” about China. There was never any lack of information from missionaries and travelers and traders. But what kind of information was it? What kind of knowledge was obtainable via the lenses of religious intolerance, colonial ambition, or Eurocentrism? Travel accounts, Jesuit letter-books, or embassy narratives can sometimes seem comparat…
The Story of a Stele
The authors start with a prologue 'The Story of a Stone' which covers its discovery, the century of kircher, 18th-century problems and controversies and the return of the missionaries, and finish with an epilogue 'The Da Qin Temple
The pretended Asian
In the summer of 1703, George Psalmanazar traveled to London posing as an East Asian from Formosa - now modern Taiwan. In the following year, Psalmanazar published a book about his native country, A Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, a highly entertaining account of exotic Asiatic customs, replete with illustrations of Formosan costumes, temples, houses, castles, funeral processions, ships, and coins, as well as examples of the F…
Sexual Shakespeare
Sexual Shakespeare
This book is located at the conjunction of queer studies and historical reconstruction.Michael Keevak aims to elucidate how efforts to discover the "real" Shakespeare, beginning in the late eighteenth century, have been consistently shaped by the sexual attitudes of those who did the discovering, so that the results of such efforts tell us less about Shakespeare's sexuality than about that of the investigators, especially when they ignore and som…
Descartes's Dreams and Their Address for Philosophy
poetic, or form. (SE XXI, 203) Freud understands that the dreams demand that they be characterized as abstract, poetic, or symbolic by the dreamer as well as by subsequent interpreters; but he obviously does not mean the same kind of poetic reinterpretation that will later be suggested by Kennington, because Freud's interest in the dreams is very different from many readers' curiosity about-again, to recall Kennington-what is consciously intended…
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Descartes's Dreams and Their Address for Philosophy
poetic, or form. (SE XXI, 203) Freud understands that the dreams demand that they be characterized as abstract, poetic, or symbolic by the dreamer as well as by subsequent interpreters; but he obviously does not mean the same kind of poetic reinterpretation that will later be suggested by Kennington, because Freud's interest in the dreams is very different from many readers' curiosity about-again, to recall Kennington-what is consciously intended…
Sexual Shakespeare
Sexual Shakespeare
This book is located at the conjunction of queer studies and historical reconstruction.Michael Keevak aims to elucidate how efforts to discover the "real" Shakespeare, beginning in the late eighteenth century, have been consistently shaped by the sexual attitudes of those who did the discovering, so that the results of such efforts tell us less about Shakespeare's sexuality than about that of the investigators, especially when they ignore and som…
The pretended Asian
In the summer of 1703, George Psalmanazar traveled to London posing as an East Asian from Formosa - now modern Taiwan. In the following year, Psalmanazar published a book about his native country, A Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, a highly entertaining account of exotic Asiatic customs, replete with illustrations of Formosan costumes, temples, houses, castles, funeral processions, ships, and coins, as well as examples of the F…
The Story of a Stele
Western readers have yet to come to terms with the fact that during much of history very little was ever “known” about China. There was never any lack of information from missionaries and travelers and traders. But what kind of information was it? What kind of knowledge was obtainable via the lenses of religious intolerance, colonial ambition, or Eurocentrism? Travel accounts, Jesuit letter-books, or embassy narratives can sometimes seem comparat…
The Story of a Stele
The authors start with a prologue 'The Story of a Stone' which covers its discovery, the century of kircher, 18th-century problems and controversies and the return of the missionaries, and finish with an epilogue 'The Da Qin Temple
Novissima Sinica
Book Review| September 01 2013 Novissima Sinica Porter, David. The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2010). Pp. x+ 230. 26 ills.$90Yang, Chi-ming. Performing China: Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660-1760. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2011). Pp. ix+ 270. 16 ills.$70 Michael Keevak Michael Keevak Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Cent…
Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel,Race and racism in modern East Asia
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael KeevakMichael Keevak is a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University. He is the author of Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (Princeton University Press, 2011)
Early Encounters Between East Asia and Europe
Ashley Eva Millar. A Singular Case
Ashley Eva Millar’s excellent work A Singular Case: Debating China’s Political Economy in the European Enlightenment fills an important gap in early modern China-Europe studies because it is one of the first attempts to survey Western attitudes toward the commercial, governmental, and scientific aspects of Chinese society during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her focus is on the British and French traditions, and the book is divided in…
Shadow Empires
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