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- Title
Francis Bacon and a Chinese Madness.
- Authors
Jackson, R. Mark
- Abstract
The article discusses early modern British travel writings and descriptions of China that support the ideas forwarded by English author Francis Bacon in his 1623 book "Historia Vitae et Mortis" about Chinese attitudes towards longevity. The author considers writings which include English minister Samuel Purchas’s "Pilgrimage;" the 1615 "De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas Suscepta ab Societate Iesu," by Ricius, or Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit who lived in China from 1582 till his death in 1610, translated by fellow Jesuit Nicholas Trigault; and the accounts of Italian explorer Marco Polo. Other subjects considered include alchemy, Western views on Chinese superstitions, and seventeenth-century British attitudes towards death.
- Subjects
CHINA; BACON, Francis, 1561-1626; LONGEVITY; HISTORY of travel writing; RICCI, Matteo, 1552-1610; EAST-West divide; TRIGAULT, Nicholas; BRITISH authors, Early modern, 1500-1700; EARLY modern English literature; CHINA description &; travel
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2010, Vol 57, Issue 3, p415
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjq072