JOHN BELL’S REPRESENTATION OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CHINA AND THE WEST

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Author(s): Pavel Petkov
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62635/qrbc-q5kn
Language: English
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Issue: 1/8/2023
Page Range: 440-451
No. of Pages: 11
Keywords: John Bell; Enlightenment; China; Travel Writing; Imagology; Representation
Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on some of the comparisons between China and the West on the pages of John Bell’s travel account. Regardless of how neutral or non-judgmental John Bell strives to be, his travel account contains a number of such comparisons. The majority of these are implicit and deserving of examination as well, but in this article I discuss some of those that are direct because they are the most striking and indicative of the British author’s attitude towards the East.
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