The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800 9781442219755, 9781442219762, 9781442219779, 2012030412

Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West 9780802099280

These essays challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of "East" and "West" in Polo

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Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West 9781442688582

These essays challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of "East" and "West" in Polo

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The Making of the Great West 9781582184395

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China and the West 2021932437, 9781800374980, 9781800374973

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Occidentalism: Literary Representations of the Maghrebi Experience of the East-West Encounter 9780748645817

Explores the encounters between East and West in Maghrebi literature in the pre-1945 period Focuses on the work of early

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Encounter with Kennan: The Great Debate 1317792165, 9781317792161

First published in 1979. We associate Professor Kennan, with what came to be known as a doctrine of containment, the fir

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The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West 9780822388821

An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese id

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The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet 9780520950498

This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists to explore the collaborative rel

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China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia 9780674042025

Perdue illuminates how China came to rule Central Eurasia and how it justifies that control, what holds the Chinese nati

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The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, and the Rise of the West in World History 9781400874446

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the tec

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