Opis: The Light of Asia - Christopher Harding

This rich and enjoyable book recounts the tangled, dynamic encounters through which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries

From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of Asia might have come under Western rule after centuries of warfare, but its intellectual, artistic and spiritual influence was fighting back.

The Light of Asia is a wonderfully varied and entertaining history of the many ways in which Asia has shaped European and North American culture over centuries of tangled, dynamic encounters, and the central importance of this vexed, often confused relationship. From Marco Polo onwards Asia has been both a source of genuine fascination and equally genuine failures of comprehension. China, India and Japan were all acknowledged to be both great civilizations and in crude ways seen as superseded by the West. From Chicago to Calcutta, and from antiquity to the new millennium, this is a rich, involving story of misunderstandings and sincere connection, of inspiration and falsehood, of geniuses, adventurers and con-men.

Christopher Harding's captivating gallery of people and places celebrates Asia's impact on the West in all its variety.

Szczegóły: The Light of Asia - Christopher Harding

Tytuł: The Light of Asia
Podtytuł: A History of Western Fascination with the East
Autor: Christopher Harding
Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780141992273
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2025
Ilość stron: 452
Format: 12.6x19.6cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.322 kg

Recenzje: The Light of Asia - Christopher Harding