文档介绍：16至18世纪西方认识中国的历程(The course of Western understanding of China from 16 to eighteenth Century)
The course of Western understanding of China from 16 to eighteenth Century
Before the great voyage, the world's most important cultural area can be divided into the China as the center of the East Asian cultural circle, with India as the center of the South (degree of Buddhism) cultural circle, West Asia and North Africa (Islamic) cultural circle and the European (Christian) cultural circle. The relationship between China and the west before the great voyage was the relationship between China and other "western" cultures.
In the era of great navigation, great changes have taken place in the relationship between the East and the west. This is some of the original western regions (such as South Asia) in the European colonies throughout Asia, including East Asia, West Asia and South Asia, and Africa are being squeezed out of the scope of the relationship between China and the west "-- they gradually e the" oriental". Because the west is not only a concept of heterogeneous culture, but also an advanced concept relative to backwardness. When the industrial civilization of Europe is ing more and more advanced in the world civilization, the relationship between "Zhong" (or "East") and "West" has changed.
The cultural exchange between China and the West from 16 to eighteenth Century is esse