By addressing these three challenges through a literary, historical, philosophical, biographical and above all comparative approach, this highly original work shows how love’s profile in China shifted with the rejection of arranged marriages and concubinage in favour of free individual choice, monogamy and a Western model of romantic love.
And it must be able to explain why early twentieth-century Chinese writers claimed that they had never known true love, or love by modern Western standards. It has to engage with the scholarly debate on whether or not romantic love was invented in Europe and is uniquely Western. It has to justify its underlying assumption that all cultures mean the same thing by the word ‘love’ regardless of language. Such a supposition has to be able to meet three challenges. Book excerpt: The Guardian's Best Books of 2015 Most people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love that romantic love is universal, quintessentially human. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Book Synopsis When True Love Came to China by : Lynn Panĭownload or read book When True Love Came to China written by Lynn Pan and published by Hong Kong University Press.
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