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Chinese roundabout : essays in history and culture
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Chinese roundabout : essays in history and culture

Author: Jonathan D Spence
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 1993, ©1992.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jonathan D Spence
ISBN: 0393309940 : 9780393309942
OCLC Number: 28303874
Description: xiii, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Paris years of Arcadio Huang -- The peregrinations of Mendes Pinto -- Matteo Ricci and the ascent to Peking -- Gamble in China -- Malraux's Temptation -- Looking east : the long view -- The seven ages of K'ang-hsi -- The energies of Ming life -- A painter's circles -- Collapse of a purist -- A vibrant doctrine -- The dialogue of Chinese science -- Being Chinese -- Food -- Medicine -- Taxes -- Opium -- Cock's blood and Browning pistols -- Film and politics : Bai Hua's Bitter love -- Tiananmen -- Poetry and physics : the spirits of opposition -- Arthur Wright -- Arthur Waley -- John Fairbank -- Fang Chao-ying.
Responsibility: Jonathan D. Spence.

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