MONTES DE OCA, Marco Antonio:Livre Rare Book
Hau Kiou Choaan histoire chinoise traduite de l'anglois par M Marc Antoine Eidous. First edition.
16-5693Lyon: BenoiÌ‚t Duplain 1766. 12mo 8.5 x 15.5cm. Half contemporary roan with used marbled boards. 4 vols. in 2: xxxij-224 ; 263 263 et 243 pages. 4 folding frontispieces. Tear without loss on one half-title.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:492467802:4 tomes 1-1bl.-1-1bl.-XXXII-224 p. 1 f. de pl. deÌpl. front. ; 1-1bl.-1-1bl.-263-1bl. p. 1 f. de pl. deÌpl. front. ; 1-1bl.-1-1bl.-263-1bl. p. 1 f. de pl. deÌpl. front. ; 1-1bl.-1-1bl.-243-4-1bl. p. 1 f. de pl. deÌpl. front. : ill. ; in-12.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:492467802Contents:Argument d'une comeÌdie chinoise joueÌe aÌ€ Canton en 1719 tome 4 p. 43-68Fragments de poeÌsie chinoise avec une dissertation tome 4 p. 69-120Recueil de proverbes et d'apophthegmes chinois tome 4 p. 121-243Notes:L'auteur est connu sous le nom de Ming kiao tchong jenTraduit de l'anglais en français par Marc-Antoine Eidous d'apreÌ€s BabrierApprobation dateÌe du 22 aouÌ‚t 1765 ; privileÌ€ge dateÌ du 2 octobre 1765 en faveur de Marc-Antoine Eidous qui le ceÌ€de aÌ€ Benoït Duplain le 15 octobre 1765Marque aux titresSig. : 2 a12 e4 A-I12 K4 ; 2 A-L12 ; 2 A-L12 ; 2 A-K12 L4.Percy's adaptation of Hau Kiou Choaan from an original Chinese novel and how the ways in which Percy interprets the Chinese novel signify his peculiar views of China. On the title page of Hau Kiou Choaan; or The Pleasing History 1761 Thomas Percy quotes from Jean-Baptiste Du Halde’s A Description of the Empire of China and of Chinese Tartary 1738: ‘There is no better means of instruction on China than letting China speak for herself’. It remains questionable whether by presenting an original piece of Chinese literature Percy has really let China ‘speak for herself’; it is reasonable to argue that Hau Kiou Choaan carries as much information about China as it does about Percy’s own perceptions of this country. Whether Percy’s works and views of China provoked louder criticism or higher praise his input into the studies of China was a positive one for it contributed to an increasingly vigorous debate that would increasingly perceive differences as a source of strength not weakness. Lyon: Benoît Duplain, 1766 hardcover
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