Europe’s Chinese Vogue in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
摘要
In order to facilitate an understanding of theChinese vogue Chinese origin of PhysiocracyPhysiocracy, it is necessary to first examine the Westward spread of Chinese culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by discussing first the missionariesMissionaries’ activities in China, second the RococoRococo, serving as the cultural background for the spread, and third what the then enlightenmentEnlightenment thinkers thought of China.