Ireland & China: Translocations and Transformations
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Add to basketWINNER OF SPECIAL BOOK AWARD OF CHINA 2021
In 1318, the Irish Franciscan friar and explorer James of Ireland accompanied Friar Odoric of Pordenone to the Far East, thus becoming the first Irish person in China. Since then, encounters between the Irish and the people of China have proliferated: just as Ireland gained from the plant hunters of the late Qing dynasty, so China learned eagerly from the tactics of Irish cultural nationalism early in the twentieth century. Such fruitful exchanges were made possible by parallels in their historical development, as each grew – in only a few generations – from traditional agricultural societies into modern, globalized republics. Whether it is China’s ecstatic welcome of Riverdance, Kerrygold butter and the prose of James Joyce, or Ireland’s reinvention of itself through its culture and newly multicultural society, these essays demonstrate, often in surprising ways, just how each nation has helped transform the other. With a welcome message from the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, this collection of essays also celebrates four decades of Sino-Irish diplomatic relations.
Professor Jerusha McCormack is an Irish academic with a long career in the area of comparative studies and a particular interest in China, teaching for many years at Beijing Foreign Studies University and more recently at Fudan University in Shanghai. Currently she lectures for the Chinese Studies MPhil at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author and editor of numerous publications including The Irish and China: Encounters and Exchanges (New Island 2019) China and the Irish: Thomas Davis Lecture Series (New Island 2009) and, with John Blair, of Thinking through China (2015) and Comparing Civilizations: China and the West (4th edition 2018). Jerusha is the first Irish winner of the Special Book Award of China 2021.
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