English
Several conceptions of the Chinese language, and even contradictory ones, can be found in the Paris of 1867. Those discrepancies can be explained by the circumstances in which people are confronted with that language: everyone does not enjoy the same access to Chinese, everyone does not experience the same influences about it, nor is everyone interested in Chinese for the same reasons. Studying those different conceptions of the same thing proves how interesting it can be to study the history of international relations from below and to focus on individual experiences and conceptions.
Keywords
- Chinese language
- Sinology
- Paris
- Representation
- Confrontation