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Year

1748-1754

Text

Ludvig Holberg and China
Essay 241
Holberg, Ludvig. Chinese drama. Translation of the first two scenes from Ji, Junxiang. Zhao shi gu er.
Essay 243
China’s religion and the missions in China.
Essay 246
Holberg, Ludvig. On the Chinese respect for agriculture.

Ludvig Holberg relied entirely on secondry sources for his knowledge on China : Jean-Baptiste Du Halde, Louis Le Comte and Christian Wolff.
His Chinese essays concern agriculture, technology, religion and the Western missions in China, sericulture, language and drama.

Mentioned People (1)

Holberg, Ludvig  (Bergen 1684-1754 Kopenhagen) : Norwegischer-dänischer Dichter, Schriftsteller, Dramatiker, Professor Universität Kopenhagen

Subjects

Literature : Occident : Norway

Documents (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1989 Eide, Elizabeth. Some remarks on images of China in Scandinavia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In : Images de la Chine : le contexte occidental de la sinologie naissante : actes du VIe Colloque international de sinology, Chantilly 1989. Sous la direction de Edward J. Malatesta et Yves Raguin. (San Francisco : Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, 1995). (Variétés sinologiques, N.S. ; vol. 78). Publication / Eide2
  • Cited by: Images de la Chine : le contexte occidental de la sinologie naissante : actes du VIe Colloque international de sinology, Chantilly 1989. Sous la direction de Edward J. Malatesta et Yves Raguin. (San Francisco : Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, 1995). (Variétés sinologiques, N.S. ; vol. 78). (Ima, Published)