China’s attitudes towards the West and the general validity of late 18 century European claims.

China’s attitudes towards the West and the general validity of late 18 century European claims.

Western opinion on China during the eighteenth century underwent radical change. Whereas earlier Europeans regarded China in highly idealized terms, late eighteenth century Europeans saw in China a hidebound and closed society, uninterested in new knowledge, science and innovation. Based on your readings of Emperor Kangxi’s “Self-Portrait,” Emperor Qianlong’s “Edict on Trade with Great Britain,” and Joanna Waley-Cohen’s “China and Western Technology in the Eighteenth Century,”

discuss China’s attitudes towards the West and the general validity of late eighteenth century European claims.

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