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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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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China and the West: Music, Representation and Reception 9780472122714

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The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China 9781503626461

This book reveals and interprets the rich diversity of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Chinese approaches to their own pas

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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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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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China and the west: Hope and Fear in the Age of Asia 9780755619467, 9781784533847

China sees its relations with the West as absolutely crucial to its future. This wider relationship, between the new wor

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