European perceptions of religion and society in 18th-century China & Bengal, and their subverted gaze in local art and encounter
This essay presents two late 18th century European travelers' encounters with and perceptions of religion in Chinese and Indian societies. While C.L.J De Guignes made an extensive tour of Chinese pagodas, Balthazar Solvyns was depicting Bengali people in 1794. Both traveler's works reveal...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2020]
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Religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 278-298 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Guignes, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de 1759-1845
/ China
/ Religion
/ Solvyns, Balthazar 1760-1824
/ Bengalis
/ Hinduism
/ Travel description
/ Orientalism (Cultural sciences)
/ Exoticism
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism BL Buddhism BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia |
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De Guignes
B Solvyns B Bengal B China B Orientalism |
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