The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Jingzhen Xie

Author:Jingzhen Xie
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030946654
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Like most contemporary Europeans who visited Macao, Hübner regarded Camões highly and even compared the poet’s grotto to the oak tree of Torquato Tasso (1544–1595), the Italian poet of the sixteenth century and author of Gerusalemme Liberate. In addition, Hübner’s writings reveal he had great sympathy for China and the Chinese. At the beginning of this lengthy work, he commented that the Chinese never stopped resisting the Western world’s moral, political, and commercial invasion. He commented as follows:

Voir, dans l’Empire du Milieu, les résistances sourdes mais constantes, le plus souvent passives, toujours opiniâtres, que l’esprit chinois oppose aux envahissements moraux, politiques et commerciaux de l’Europe – voilà le but du voyage ou plutôt de la promenade que je compte faire autour du globe.55

(Watch, in the Middle Kingdom, the dull but constant resistance, most often passive, always obstinate, which the Chinese spirit opposes to the moral, political and commercial invasions of Europe – that is the purpose of the journey, or rather that of the walk that I intend to do around the globe.)

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