Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
The European Discovery of China
Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona
This course was an exercise in global history that focused on when and how the West first approached China, and explored the influence that the discovery of China exerted on late medieval and early modern European minds.
8 weeks, 6 hours per week
Dolors Folch
Emeritus Professor of Chinese History of Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify the interconnection of different historical processes
- Explore the interaction of textual, artistic and cartographic sources
- Investigate the bias of European perception of the other
- Summarise the early Modern Chinese society
- Describe and discuss the European reports about China up to the 17th century
Syllabus
- The Chinese World
- Song cities and Mongol conquest
- Marcos Polo’s China
- The China that Europeans discovered: the Ming dynasty
- China in the spotlight
- The Friar’s missions and Mendoza’s book
- Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Mission
- The 17th Century
Issued on 28th November 2017
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