The Qing Empire Entering the Global Public Sight: China Di Bao in European Documents
by W
About This Novel
This book is a study by the famous sinologist Nicolas Standaert on the spread of "Di Bao" in Europe during the Qing Dynasty. The sources of existing Dibao documents dating back to 1800 are mainly European-language documents compiled by Europeans living in China in the early Qing Dynasty. After being compiled in China, these documents were sent to Europe in the form of personal letters, reports, and translations, and most of them were included in anthologies about Chinese culture. On the one hand, they record the actual appearance, specifications, format, content and usage of Di Bao in the early Qing Dynasty, and cover information not recorded in Chinese historical materials; on the other hand, they also show how Europeans read Di Bao in China and how they, as global agents, introduced China to Europe, thereby allowing Di Bao to join the global information network. The author selects representative cases from Kang, Yong, and Qian dynasties to analyze this process in detail, confirming that the Enlightenment's important views on China's political system and governance were based on texts directly related to Di Bao, indicating that Di Bao and the ideas it carried entered the global public domain much earlier than we thought.
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