Accommodating cosmopolitan experiences

Jiang Dunfu's 蔣敦復 and Wang Tao's 王韜 autobiographical processing of their treaty port years

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ID3662099
AuthorsSebastian Eicher (0000-0002-0161-0826, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume58
Issue4
Pages1181-1200
Publication date2024-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueModern Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0026749x23000446
OpenAlexW4406543089
LanguageEN
References cited12

With the establishment of the treaty ports in 1842, contact between China and the Western world intensified. In Shanghai, the most extensive exchange of knowledge and ideas took place between the missionaries of the London Missionary Society and their Chinese assistants. By working and translating for the missionaries, these traditionally educated men gained intimate insights into the West and Western learning and established close personal relationships with the missionaries. But in the process, they also became outcasts, as working for Westerners was viewed critically by their contemporaries. This article sets out to analyse the way in which Jiang Dunfu 蔣敦復 (1808-1867) and Wang Tao 王韜 (1828-1897) processed and accommodated these cosmopolitan experiences in Shanghai in their prose autobiographies

Political science · Port (circuit theory · Treaty · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Chinese history and philosophy · Engineering · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology

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