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In Europe, the historical representation and narration of China and the Orient more in general from an outsider’s point of view has conjured up an exotic and a-historical image of a poetical, mystical and refined civilization. In Walpole’s Britain, for example, “the argument from the Chinese”—namely...

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Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2022
Online Access:https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/978-88-5518-579-0_12