Encountering China: Early Modern European Responses by Qingjun Li, Rachana Sachdev

Encountering China: Early Modern European Responses

Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures

Qingjun Li, Rachana Sachdev

218 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history travel medium-paced
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Encountering China addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they encountered, attempted primarily to build bridges, to explore similarities, and to emulate the Chinese, th...

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