Francophonie and the Orient : French-Asian Transcultural Crossings (1840-1940)

Based on transnational France-Asia approaches, this book studies Asian cultures once steeped in French civilisation but free of a colonial mode in order to highlight the transliterary examples of cultural transfer. This book is a pioneering study of the Francophone phenomenon within the context of c...

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Main Author: Kang, Mathilde (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2018
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