David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything makes a compelling invitation to Enlightenment scholars to revisit the “Indigenous critique” of European society, by “taking seriously contributions to social thought that come from outside the European canon and in particular from those Indigenous peoples whom Western philosophers tend to…
Qing Encounters – by Craig Clunas
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding, with Lidy Jane Chu, eds., Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges Between China and the West (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2015) This collection of sixteen essays gives a good sense of the much-increased body of work now being carried out on cultural contacts between the…