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The document provides lecture notes on Week 4 of an arts course about China imagined and perceived. It discusses the topics of Orientalism and Sinology, summarizing an article by Simon Leys on this topic. It also discusses a film about Lin Zexu, travel accounts from Marco Polo and papal envoys to the Khans, and the film 55 Days at Peking. The key points are that Sinology is primarily a Chinese intellectual pursuit, the study of China challenges Western ethnocentrism, early European accounts helped spread my

Author

elkie

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EN