부산대학교 도서관

Elements of Chinese Cultures, those Confucian one particularly, help Voltaire unveil how the foreign country looks like and meanwhile serve as a crucial means of him in building its vast empire of literature. Through The Orphan of China, are written poetic drama based on Yuan verse The Orphan of Zhao which written by Ji Junxiang. Voltaire had Chinese Cultures and morality of Confucianism greatly propagated. In this drama, the Song Dynasty collapsed, but its conqueror Genghis Khanwa ultimately conquered by the Song cultures and virtues. Voltaire acclaimed the moral and spiritual excellence contained in The Orphan of Zhao and on the other hand satirized the spiritual deprivation and moral for forfeiture then in France, both of which accorded with his acceptance of The Orphan of Zhao. Voltaire presented The Orphan of China on the stage to dramatize elements of Chinese Cultures, and that was not a choice of art but rather that of culture, namely the Chinese moral culture.