![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Pan’s rare skill makes the book a treat from start to finish a sumptuous, deft and moving analysis of China’s relationship with love.’ -Mishi Saran, author of Chasing the Monk’s Shadow: A Journey in the Footsteps of Xuanzang and The Other Side of Light When True Love Came to China 235mm Most people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love that romantic love is universal, quintessentially human. ![]() Afterthoughts Notes References Index Citation previewġ5mm 5mm 146mm 12mm 27mm 12mm 146mm 5mm 15mm 15mm 5mm When True Love Came to China ‘Nobody writes about China quite as brilliantly as Lynn Pan, who in this new, illuminating work on love showcases her trademark erudition entwined with a novelist’s sensibility. Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgements 1. ![]()
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