John Bell’s Representation of the Differences between China and the West
John Bell’s Representation of the Differences between China and the West

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on some of the comparisons between China and the West on the pages of John Bell’s travel account. Regardless of how neutral or non-judgmental John Bell strives to be, his travel account contains a number of such comparisons. The majority of these are implicit and deserving of examination as well, but in this article I discuss some of those that are direct because they are the most striking and indicative of the British author’s attitude towards the East.

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