Nicholas Dew
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199234844
- eISBN:
- 9780191715716
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199234844.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter sets out the institutional and intellectual context of Orientalism in 17th-century France. The Orientalism of the 17th century was shaped by intellectual concerns and institutional ...
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This chapter sets out the institutional and intellectual context of Orientalism in 17th-century France. The Orientalism of the 17th century was shaped by intellectual concerns and institutional arrangements that differed from those of later periods. This has implications for the choice of theoretical model. The chapter surveys the literature on early modern European engagement with Asian cultures, before exploring in detail the 17th-century French setting, particularly the patronage of Oriental scholarship under Jean-Baptiste Colbert, from the 1660s on.Less
This chapter sets out the institutional and intellectual context of Orientalism in 17th-century France. The Orientalism of the 17th century was shaped by intellectual concerns and institutional arrangements that differed from those of later periods. This has implications for the choice of theoretical model. The chapter surveys the literature on early modern European engagement with Asian cultures, before exploring in detail the 17th-century French setting, particularly the patronage of Oriental scholarship under Jean-Baptiste Colbert, from the 1660s on.
Nicholas Dew
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199234844
- eISBN:
- 9780191715716
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199234844.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter follows the patronage career of the French orientalist, Barthélemy d'Herbelot (1625–1695), and uses it to further explore the institutional framework for Oriental studies in the late ...
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This chapter follows the patronage career of the French orientalist, Barthélemy d'Herbelot (1625–1695), and uses it to further explore the institutional framework for Oriental studies in the late 17th century. D'Herbelot enjoyed the patronage of the Medici grand dukes in Florence in the mid-1660s, and an attempt was made to bring him back to France. As part of Colbert's reforms of royal patronage, a ‘grande académie’ was planned, which would have included Oriental scholars. The failure of this scheme, and the subsequent movements of d'Herbelot, cast light on the ‘place’ occupied by Oriental learning in the ‘Republic of Letters’.Less
This chapter follows the patronage career of the French orientalist, Barthélemy d'Herbelot (1625–1695), and uses it to further explore the institutional framework for Oriental studies in the late 17th century. D'Herbelot enjoyed the patronage of the Medici grand dukes in Florence in the mid-1660s, and an attempt was made to bring him back to France. As part of Colbert's reforms of royal patronage, a ‘grande académie’ was planned, which would have included Oriental scholars. The failure of this scheme, and the subsequent movements of d'Herbelot, cast light on the ‘place’ occupied by Oriental learning in the ‘Republic of Letters’.
Aurélien Girard
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197266601
- eISBN:
- 9780191896057
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266601.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
The article examines the Evoplia fidei catholicae romanae historico-dogmatica (The Historical-dogmatic Armour of the Roman Catholic Faith), a book which was published in Rome in 1694 by a Maronite, ...
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The article examines the Evoplia fidei catholicae romanae historico-dogmatica (The Historical-dogmatic Armour of the Roman Catholic Faith), a book which was published in Rome in 1694 by a Maronite, Faustus Naironus (b. 1628, d. 1708–1712). This Eastern Christian wrote several books in his own name, and spent his entire career in Rome, but failed to enjoy much of a reputation as a scholar during his own lifetime. Published by the Congregation of Propaganda press, the Evoplia was a controversial anti-Protestant book, where Naironus presented the Syrian Christians’ contribution to the Catholic cause: according to him, Eastern Christians, regardless of their Church, adhered to the Roman Catholic Church’s position on the seven sacraments and the main dogmas. I chart the gestation of the book, and explore the reasons – some confessional, some scholarly – why this work elicited little response, both among Protestant and French Catholic scholars.Less
The article examines the Evoplia fidei catholicae romanae historico-dogmatica (The Historical-dogmatic Armour of the Roman Catholic Faith), a book which was published in Rome in 1694 by a Maronite, Faustus Naironus (b. 1628, d. 1708–1712). This Eastern Christian wrote several books in his own name, and spent his entire career in Rome, but failed to enjoy much of a reputation as a scholar during his own lifetime. Published by the Congregation of Propaganda press, the Evoplia was a controversial anti-Protestant book, where Naironus presented the Syrian Christians’ contribution to the Catholic cause: according to him, Eastern Christians, regardless of their Church, adhered to the Roman Catholic Church’s position on the seven sacraments and the main dogmas. I chart the gestation of the book, and explore the reasons – some confessional, some scholarly – why this work elicited little response, both among Protestant and French Catholic scholars.
Vera Tolz
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199594443
- eISBN:
- 9780191725067
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594443.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book is about how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. It shows that out of the ...
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This book is about how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. It shows that out of the ferment of revolution and war a group of scholars in St Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge and about Europe and Asia as mere political and cultural constructs, which anticipated the work of Edward Said and postcolonial scholarship by half a century. The similarities between the two groups were, in fact, genealogical. The book reveals that Said was indebted—via Arab intellectuals of the 1960s who studied in the Soviet Union—to the revisionist ideas of Russian Orientologists of the fin de siècle. But why did this body of Russian scholarship of the early twentieth century turn out to be so innovative? Should we agree with a popular claim of the Russian elites about their country's particular affinity with the ‘Orient’? There is no single answer to this question. The early twentieth century was a period when all over Europe a fascination with things ‘Oriental’ engendered the questioning of many nineteenth-century assumptions and prejudices. In that sense, the revisionism of Russian Orientologists was part of a pan-European trend. And yet, the book also argues that a set of political, social, and cultural factors, which were specific to Russia, allowed its imperial scholars to engage in an unusual dialogue with representatives of the empire's non-European minorities. It is together that they were able to articulate a powerful and long-lasting critique of modern imperialism and colonialism and to shape ethnic politics in Russia across the divide of the 1917 revolutions.Less
This book is about how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. It shows that out of the ferment of revolution and war a group of scholars in St Petersburg articulated fresh ideas about the relationship between power and knowledge and about Europe and Asia as mere political and cultural constructs, which anticipated the work of Edward Said and postcolonial scholarship by half a century. The similarities between the two groups were, in fact, genealogical. The book reveals that Said was indebted—via Arab intellectuals of the 1960s who studied in the Soviet Union—to the revisionist ideas of Russian Orientologists of the fin de siècle. But why did this body of Russian scholarship of the early twentieth century turn out to be so innovative? Should we agree with a popular claim of the Russian elites about their country's particular affinity with the ‘Orient’? There is no single answer to this question. The early twentieth century was a period when all over Europe a fascination with things ‘Oriental’ engendered the questioning of many nineteenth-century assumptions and prejudices. In that sense, the revisionism of Russian Orientologists was part of a pan-European trend. And yet, the book also argues that a set of political, social, and cultural factors, which were specific to Russia, allowed its imperial scholars to engage in an unusual dialogue with representatives of the empire's non-European minorities. It is together that they were able to articulate a powerful and long-lasting critique of modern imperialism and colonialism and to shape ethnic politics in Russia across the divide of the 1917 revolutions.
Edward Ullendorff and Sebastian Brock
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263501
- eISBN:
- 9780191734212
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263501.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Judah Benzion Segal (1912–2003), a Fellow of the British Academy, had a long career as a teacher of Semitic languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Segal’s ...
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Judah Benzion Segal (1912–2003), a Fellow of the British Academy, had a long career as a teacher of Semitic languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Segal’s principal interest was in Aramaic and Syriac, in addition to Hebrew and the other main Semitic tongues. Before his teaching career, he was employed in the Sudan Civil Service and, during World War II, his service was frequently behind the enemy lines in North Africa. He was educated at Magdalen College School, University of Oxford, and at St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. One of Segal’s other abiding interests concerned the Jews of Cochin whose history he published in 1993. But it will probably be in the area of Aramaic studies that Segal will be best remembered in the academic world.Less
Judah Benzion Segal (1912–2003), a Fellow of the British Academy, had a long career as a teacher of Semitic languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Segal’s principal interest was in Aramaic and Syriac, in addition to Hebrew and the other main Semitic tongues. Before his teaching career, he was employed in the Sudan Civil Service and, during World War II, his service was frequently behind the enemy lines in North Africa. He was educated at Magdalen College School, University of Oxford, and at St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. One of Segal’s other abiding interests concerned the Jews of Cochin whose history he published in 1993. But it will probably be in the area of Aramaic studies that Segal will be best remembered in the academic world.
Nicholas Dew
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199234844
- eISBN:
- 9780191715716
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199234844.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book poses the question: before the Enlightenment, and before the imperialism of the later 18th century, how did European readers find out about the varied cultures of Asia? The book presents a ...
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This book poses the question: before the Enlightenment, and before the imperialism of the later 18th century, how did European readers find out about the varied cultures of Asia? The book presents a history of Oriental studies in 17th-century France (c.1643–1715), mapping the place within the intellectual culture of the period that was given to studies of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Chinese texts, as well as writings on Mughal India. The Orientalist writers studied here, such as Melchisédech Thévenot, François Bernier, and Barthélemy D'Herbelot, produced books that would become the sources used throughout the 18th century. They are here placed in their own context as members of the ‘republic of letters’ in the age of the scientific revolution and the early Enlightenment.Less
This book poses the question: before the Enlightenment, and before the imperialism of the later 18th century, how did European readers find out about the varied cultures of Asia? The book presents a history of Oriental studies in 17th-century France (c.1643–1715), mapping the place within the intellectual culture of the period that was given to studies of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Chinese texts, as well as writings on Mughal India. The Orientalist writers studied here, such as Melchisédech Thévenot, François Bernier, and Barthélemy D'Herbelot, produced books that would become the sources used throughout the 18th century. They are here placed in their own context as members of the ‘republic of letters’ in the age of the scientific revolution and the early Enlightenment.
Daniel Stolzenberg
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226924144
- eISBN:
- 9780226924151
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226924151.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
This chapter covers Kircher's return to Rome from Malta in 1638. Kircher was eager to return to the unfinished edition of the Coptic-Arabic lexicon and his ever-expanding hieroglyphic studies, and as ...
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This chapter covers Kircher's return to Rome from Malta in 1638. Kircher was eager to return to the unfinished edition of the Coptic-Arabic lexicon and his ever-expanding hieroglyphic studies, and as he brought both projects to completion in the following years, he encountered numerous obstacles. He overcame these obstacles only with the assistance of new and powerful patrons, and by harnessing the exceptional resources that made Rome a vital center of scholarship, especially in the fields of antiquarian and Oriental studies. Kircher's investigations of Egypt and the hieroglyphs, culminating in the monumental Egyptian Oedipus, were products of a network of institutions, collections, and individuals centered in Rome and extending throughout Europe and the world.Less
This chapter covers Kircher's return to Rome from Malta in 1638. Kircher was eager to return to the unfinished edition of the Coptic-Arabic lexicon and his ever-expanding hieroglyphic studies, and as he brought both projects to completion in the following years, he encountered numerous obstacles. He overcame these obstacles only with the assistance of new and powerful patrons, and by harnessing the exceptional resources that made Rome a vital center of scholarship, especially in the fields of antiquarian and Oriental studies. Kircher's investigations of Egypt and the hieroglyphs, culminating in the monumental Egyptian Oedipus, were products of a network of institutions, collections, and individuals centered in Rome and extending throughout Europe and the world.
Seth Kimmel
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226278285
- eISBN:
- 9780226278315
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226278315.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
Expanding the insights of the religious reformer and linguist Juan de Valdés, the Morisco Ignacio de Las Casas and his fellow Jesuits recognized that lived contact produced linguistic fluency and ...
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Expanding the insights of the religious reformer and linguist Juan de Valdés, the Morisco Ignacio de Las Casas and his fellow Jesuits recognized that lived contact produced linguistic fluency and Christian faith. The first half of this chapter shows how the Jesuits and others laboring on the internal and external frontiers of Christianity balanced coercion and accommodation in their cultivation of second language fluency and New Christian orthodoxy. The second half of the chapter examines the role of sixteenth-century Christian Hebraists in the transformation of peninsular Arabic study and comparative philology. By trafficking in an Arabic intended for display, decoration, and easy translation, polymaths like Benito Arias Montano, Fray Luis de León, and Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas put their somewhat limited Arabic knowledge to use as markers of a new kind of professional expertise in Salamanca and other centers of peninsular scholarship. The crucial epistemological distinction between form and content first emerged as a strategy to cultivate communication with recent converts while safeguarding against the accusation of heresy. Over time, however, it matured into a powerful instrument of intellectual inquiry, particularly among the community of pastoral linguists and comparative philologists who helped shape the nascent field of Oriental studies.Less
Expanding the insights of the religious reformer and linguist Juan de Valdés, the Morisco Ignacio de Las Casas and his fellow Jesuits recognized that lived contact produced linguistic fluency and Christian faith. The first half of this chapter shows how the Jesuits and others laboring on the internal and external frontiers of Christianity balanced coercion and accommodation in their cultivation of second language fluency and New Christian orthodoxy. The second half of the chapter examines the role of sixteenth-century Christian Hebraists in the transformation of peninsular Arabic study and comparative philology. By trafficking in an Arabic intended for display, decoration, and easy translation, polymaths like Benito Arias Montano, Fray Luis de León, and Francisco Sánchez de las Brozas put their somewhat limited Arabic knowledge to use as markers of a new kind of professional expertise in Salamanca and other centers of peninsular scholarship. The crucial epistemological distinction between form and content first emerged as a strategy to cultivate communication with recent converts while safeguarding against the accusation of heresy. Over time, however, it matured into a powerful instrument of intellectual inquiry, particularly among the community of pastoral linguists and comparative philologists who helped shape the nascent field of Oriental studies.
Nicholas Dew
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199234844
- eISBN:
- 9780191715716
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199234844.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The Epilogue draws together the themes of the preceding chapters, and offers concluding remarks. It is organized around the story of the philosopher G. W. Leibniz's attempts to verify Jesuit accounts ...
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The Epilogue draws together the themes of the preceding chapters, and offers concluding remarks. It is organized around the story of the philosopher G. W. Leibniz's attempts to verify Jesuit accounts of the Nestorian Christian monument in China (the Sigan-Fu stone) by searching for a medieval Arabic travel text which was rumoured to offer independent evidence of the stone's existence. The case reveals both the uses and the limitations of the antiquarian approach to Oriental studies.Less
The Epilogue draws together the themes of the preceding chapters, and offers concluding remarks. It is organized around the story of the philosopher G. W. Leibniz's attempts to verify Jesuit accounts of the Nestorian Christian monument in China (the Sigan-Fu stone) by searching for a medieval Arabic travel text which was rumoured to offer independent evidence of the stone's existence. The case reveals both the uses and the limitations of the antiquarian approach to Oriental studies.
Anne Witchard
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789888139606
- eISBN:
- 9789882208643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139606.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
The cultural and social climate to which Lao She would respond in Er Ma was one both of hidebound retrenchment and outward-looking optimism, the latter thanks to the efforts of Binyon, Waley, and ...
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The cultural and social climate to which Lao She would respond in Er Ma was one both of hidebound retrenchment and outward-looking optimism, the latter thanks to the efforts of Binyon, Waley, and Pound, and a growing awareness of alternate aesthetic traditions that had begun to challenge the assumptions of British ruling culture. With the scholar, Clement Egerton, Lao She worked on a translation of the Ming dynasty masterpiece, Jin ping mei, published as The Golden Lotus (1939). The virtuosity of Jin Ping Mei's unknown author has recently been compared with the Dickens of Bleak House, the Joyce of Ulysses, and the Nabokov of Lolita. Until the canonization of modernist technique, the qualities of Chinese narrative fiction, namely the carnivalesque, the surreal, irony, parody, pluralistic viewpoints and irresolution or open-ended conclusions, were judged to be shortcomings or limitations by the tenets of objective realism. Working on the translation of Jin ping mei while devouring the newly published works of Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Huxley, and Woolf, Lao She was uniquely positioned to appreciate the formal significance of Chinese literary style and the qualitiesthat were beginning to be explored by Western writers in theirrejection of the dominant tradition of mimetic realism.Less
The cultural and social climate to which Lao She would respond in Er Ma was one both of hidebound retrenchment and outward-looking optimism, the latter thanks to the efforts of Binyon, Waley, and Pound, and a growing awareness of alternate aesthetic traditions that had begun to challenge the assumptions of British ruling culture. With the scholar, Clement Egerton, Lao She worked on a translation of the Ming dynasty masterpiece, Jin ping mei, published as The Golden Lotus (1939). The virtuosity of Jin Ping Mei's unknown author has recently been compared with the Dickens of Bleak House, the Joyce of Ulysses, and the Nabokov of Lolita. Until the canonization of modernist technique, the qualities of Chinese narrative fiction, namely the carnivalesque, the surreal, irony, parody, pluralistic viewpoints and irresolution or open-ended conclusions, were judged to be shortcomings or limitations by the tenets of objective realism. Working on the translation of Jin ping mei while devouring the newly published works of Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Huxley, and Woolf, Lao She was uniquely positioned to appreciate the formal significance of Chinese literary style and the qualitiesthat were beginning to be explored by Western writers in theirrejection of the dominant tradition of mimetic realism.
Siraj Ahmed
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199677597
- eISBN:
- 9780191803710
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199677597.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature, European Literature
This chapter reiterates that the Company’s early Orientalists confound ideas about the ‘imperial project’, suggesting that 18th-century British India contained possibilities different from those of ...
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This chapter reiterates that the Company’s early Orientalists confound ideas about the ‘imperial project’, suggesting that 18th-century British India contained possibilities different from those of the centuries that followed. The most influential of these Orientalists was Sir William Jones, arguably the most commanding scholar whom Oriental studies has yet produced, the master of languages and the supposed origin of tendencies and even disciplines in the comparative study of culture. This chapter also implies that 18th-century British Orientalism’s chief aim and achievement was to provide a textual basis for Indian law in a form that would become absolutely seminal for the subsequent development of Indian history and historiography.Less
This chapter reiterates that the Company’s early Orientalists confound ideas about the ‘imperial project’, suggesting that 18th-century British India contained possibilities different from those of the centuries that followed. The most influential of these Orientalists was Sir William Jones, arguably the most commanding scholar whom Oriental studies has yet produced, the master of languages and the supposed origin of tendencies and even disciplines in the comparative study of culture. This chapter also implies that 18th-century British Orientalism’s chief aim and achievement was to provide a textual basis for Indian law in a form that would become absolutely seminal for the subsequent development of Indian history and historiography.
James W. Heisig
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824838850
- eISBN:
- 9780824871147
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824838850.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London University's School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around ...
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The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London University's School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-examination of the questions of self, God, morality, property, and the East–West philosophical divide. Rather than attempt to harmonize East and West philosophies into a single chorus, the book undertakes a “philosophical antiphony.” Through the simple call-and-response of a few representative voices, the book tries to join the choir on both sides of the antiphony to relate the questions at hand to larger problems that press on the human community. It argues that as problems like the technological devastation of the natural world, the shrinking of elected governance through the expanding powers of financial institutions, and the expropriation of alternate cultures of health and education spread freely through traditional civilizations across the world, religious and philosophical responses can no longer afford to remain territorial in outlook. Although the lectures often stress the importance of practice, their principal preoccupation is with seeing the things of life more clearly.Less
The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London University's School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-examination of the questions of self, God, morality, property, and the East–West philosophical divide. Rather than attempt to harmonize East and West philosophies into a single chorus, the book undertakes a “philosophical antiphony.” Through the simple call-and-response of a few representative voices, the book tries to join the choir on both sides of the antiphony to relate the questions at hand to larger problems that press on the human community. It argues that as problems like the technological devastation of the natural world, the shrinking of elected governance through the expanding powers of financial institutions, and the expropriation of alternate cultures of health and education spread freely through traditional civilizations across the world, religious and philosophical responses can no longer afford to remain territorial in outlook. Although the lectures often stress the importance of practice, their principal preoccupation is with seeing the things of life more clearly.
Shiona Airlie
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789888139569
- eISBN:
- 9789888180134
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139569.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Sir Reginald Johnston was initially in a relationship with Eileen Power, yet unfortunately their engagement was finally dissolved by Eileen. Thanks to his in-depth knowledge of China's affairs, he ...
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Sir Reginald Johnston was initially in a relationship with Eileen Power, yet unfortunately their engagement was finally dissolved by Eileen. Thanks to his in-depth knowledge of China's affairs, he was later appointed to the Chair of Chinese at the University of London's School of Oriental Studies. After having a long academic vacation in China, he returned to London to take up his post as professor. Also he managed to maintain strong bonds with Puyi, Japan's puppet ruler at that time. Johnston's support for Puyi was in fact made evident in his book Twilight in the Forbidden City, and he turned into a minor celebrity as his story reached a mass audience. At the end of the 1934–35 academic session, he offered to retire, and decided to make a pilgrimage to Manchuria and visit Puyi.Less
Sir Reginald Johnston was initially in a relationship with Eileen Power, yet unfortunately their engagement was finally dissolved by Eileen. Thanks to his in-depth knowledge of China's affairs, he was later appointed to the Chair of Chinese at the University of London's School of Oriental Studies. After having a long academic vacation in China, he returned to London to take up his post as professor. Also he managed to maintain strong bonds with Puyi, Japan's puppet ruler at that time. Johnston's support for Puyi was in fact made evident in his book Twilight in the Forbidden City, and he turned into a minor celebrity as his story reached a mass audience. At the end of the 1934–35 academic session, he offered to retire, and decided to make a pilgrimage to Manchuria and visit Puyi.
Angela Penrose
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- November 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198753940
- eISBN:
- 9780191815720
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198753940.003.0012
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Business History, Strategy
This chapter covers the period 1960–78. A readership in economics with reference to the Middle East at the London School of Economics and School of Oriental and African Studies was followed in 1964 ...
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This chapter covers the period 1960–78. A readership in economics with reference to the Middle East at the London School of Economics and School of Oriental and African Studies was followed in 1964 by taking up the first chair of economics with special reference to Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Edith developed the new department and co-founded the Journal of Development Studies. She travelled extensively, particularly in the Middle East, where she taught and advised at the American Universities of Beirut and Cairo. In 1978, with E. F. Penrose, she published Iraq: International Relations and National Development, a comprehensive study of the political and economic development of the state of Iraq. She contributed to public bodies including the British Social Science Research Council and the Overseas Development Institute, the Commonwealth Development Corporation, the Monopolies Commission, and the Sainsbury Committee.Less
This chapter covers the period 1960–78. A readership in economics with reference to the Middle East at the London School of Economics and School of Oriental and African Studies was followed in 1964 by taking up the first chair of economics with special reference to Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Edith developed the new department and co-founded the Journal of Development Studies. She travelled extensively, particularly in the Middle East, where she taught and advised at the American Universities of Beirut and Cairo. In 1978, with E. F. Penrose, she published Iraq: International Relations and National Development, a comprehensive study of the political and economic development of the state of Iraq. She contributed to public bodies including the British Social Science Research Council and the Overseas Development Institute, the Commonwealth Development Corporation, the Monopolies Commission, and the Sainsbury Committee.
J.P.S. Uberoi
Khalid Tyabji (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- December 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780199495986
- eISBN:
- 9780199099825
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199495986.003.0014
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Theory
This chapter consists of four short pieces concerning Sikhism which serve as a pretext for an analysis of Sikh studies, both foreign and Indian. It includes an outline of the main tenets of the ...
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This chapter consists of four short pieces concerning Sikhism which serve as a pretext for an analysis of Sikh studies, both foreign and Indian. It includes an outline of the main tenets of the Orientalist and Indian area studies approaches to Sikh religion and history and raises questions about the nature of Sikhism and Sikh Raj in the unity and diversity of current ‘secular’ India and the relationship between the institutions of civil society and the state. The discussion is both historical and contemporary leading up to the moment preceding Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination by her Sikh guards. Fundamental to the discussion is the idea and concept of Indian modernity and the place of a plurality of religions within it.Less
This chapter consists of four short pieces concerning Sikhism which serve as a pretext for an analysis of Sikh studies, both foreign and Indian. It includes an outline of the main tenets of the Orientalist and Indian area studies approaches to Sikh religion and history and raises questions about the nature of Sikhism and Sikh Raj in the unity and diversity of current ‘secular’ India and the relationship between the institutions of civil society and the state. The discussion is both historical and contemporary leading up to the moment preceding Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination by her Sikh guards. Fundamental to the discussion is the idea and concept of Indian modernity and the place of a plurality of religions within it.
Asaph Ben-Tov
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198743651
- eISBN:
- 9780191803826
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198743651.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter surveys Arabic studies by seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Protestant scholars in Germany. It shows that the main interest of these scholars lay with oriental texts. They had no ...
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This chapter surveys Arabic studies by seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Protestant scholars in Germany. It shows that the main interest of these scholars lay with oriental texts. They had no real concern for the Near East as a region where millions of their fellow humans lived—their souls awaiting salvation through Christian mission, or, for the more mundanely inclined, their merchandise offering to fill European coffers. The pious protestations these scholars made, that knowledge of Arabic and of Islam were necessary for an effective Christian mission, were not followed by any real concern for such an undertaking.Less
This chapter surveys Arabic studies by seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Protestant scholars in Germany. It shows that the main interest of these scholars lay with oriental texts. They had no real concern for the Near East as a region where millions of their fellow humans lived—their souls awaiting salvation through Christian mission, or, for the more mundanely inclined, their merchandise offering to fill European coffers. The pious protestations these scholars made, that knowledge of Arabic and of Islam were necessary for an effective Christian mission, were not followed by any real concern for such an undertaking.
