{"product_id":"from-chinese-cosmology-to-english-yu-liu-9781643363806","title":"From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism: The Intricate Journey of a Monistic Idea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA culturally sensitive and rewarding new understanding of the cross-cultural interaction between China and Europe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this important new work author Yu Liu argues that, confined by a narrow English and European conceptual framework, scholars have so far obscured the radical innovation and revolutionary implication of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth's monistic philosophy. Liu's innovative intellectual history traces the organic westward movement of the Chinese concept of \u003ci\u003etianren heyi\u003c\/i\u003e, or humanity's unity with heaven. This monistic idea enters the European imaginary through Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci's understanding of Chinese culture, travels through Spinoza's identification of God with nature, becomes ingrained in eighteenth-century English thought via the landscaping theory and practice of William Kent and Horace Walpole, and emerges in the poetry and thought of Coleridge and Wordsworth. In addition to presenting a significantly different reading of the two English poets, Liu contributes to scholarship about English literary history, history of European philosophy and religion, English garden history, and cross-cultural interactions between China and Europe in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yu Liu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1643363808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643363806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Yu Liu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44074577101055,"sku":"9781643363806","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7cde1dee-c673-4f14-a8af-470cc2609f90.jpg?v=1685454561","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-chinese-cosmology-to-english-yu-liu-9781643363806","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}