Ancient Accounts of India and China (title page)
Title
Ancient Accounts of India and China (title page)
Subject
India --Description and travel --Early works to 1800
China --Description and travel
Description
In the European Enlightenment, sympathetic accounts of Chinese culture by Jesuit missionaries and others were often used to highlight the possibility of a secular and non-European civilization. Renaudot’s translation of Arabic texts - based on the experiences of Sulaiman al-Tajir (who travelled to China c. 851 CE) and Ibn Wahb al-Basri (876 CE) - was intended to undermine these pro-Chinese accounts. James Tennent, the Northern Irish-born secretary of colonial Ceylon, used Renaudot in his best-selling 1859 Ceylon.
Creator
Renaudot, Eusèbe, 1646-1720
Source
[no text]
Publisher
NUI Maynooth Library
Date
1733
Contributor
[no text]
Rights
copyright NUIM
Relation
[no text]
Format
JPEG image
Language
English
Type
Text
Image
Identifier
Gg: 301 RUSSELL
Coverage
9th century
India
China
Original Format
Paper
Text
[no text]
Files
Collection
Citation
Renaudot, Eusèbe, 1646-1720, “Ancient Accounts of India and China (title page),” NUI Maynooth Library, accessed April 24, 2024, https://nuimlibrary.omeka.net/items/show/12.