Author

Publication

2007 - Legenda, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

26,250 words, Guess

Page Count

105 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101904350933
  • ISBN-139781904350934
  • Goodreads2844802
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008399097
  • OCLC Control Number1079363190
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC327.44051
  • LCCDC59.8.C5 H84 2007
  • LCCDC59.8.C6 H84 2007

Description

"China has long been an object of fascination for the French, who celebrated their annee de la Chine in 2004. Symptomatic of that fascination are the movements into China made by groups as diverse as the French Jesuit missionaries, who arrived in L'Empire du Milieu in the late seventeenth century, and the Tel Quel intellectuals, whose will to political pilgrimage took them to the Peoples's Republic in 1974. Symptomatic, too, are the narrative and visual representations of China offered by such as Pierre Loti, Victor Segalen, Paul Claudel, Michel Leiris, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Malraux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Marc Riboud. In this penetrating study, Alex Hughes explores models of intercultural encounter between France and China elaborated in the modern French cultural arena. Locating forms of bodily experience as critical to that encounter, she reflects on its forms and foundations."--Jacket.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Research monographs in French studies -- 22

Other Editions

  • France/ChinaLegenda2007

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