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An American Pioneer of Chinese Studies in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Benjamin Bowen Carter as an Agent of Global Knowledge

An American Pioneer of Chinese Studies in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Benjamin Bowen Carter as an Agent of Global Knowledge

Yeung, Man Shun

Hardcover

General ReferenceGeneral World HistoryTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 9004498958
ISBN13: 9789004498952
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 7 2021
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Benjamin Bowen Carter (1771-1831), one of the first Americans to speak and read Chinese, studied Chinese in Canton and advocated its use in diplomacy decades before America established a formal relationship with China. Drawing on rediscovered manuscripts, this book reconstructs Carter's multilingual learning experience, reveals how he helped translate a diplomatic document into Chinese, describes his interactions with European sinologists, and traces his attempts to convince the US government and American academics of the practical and cultural value of Chinese studies. The cross-cultural perspective employed in this book emphasizes the reciprocal dynamics of Carter's relationships with Chinese and European others, while Carter's story itself forces a rewriting of the earliest years of US-China relations.

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