China and the West. A short history of their contact from ancient times to the fall of the Manchu Dynasty
Editorial WESTHOLME PUBLISHING
Festland Spanien
- Verlag WESTHOLME PUBLISHING
- ISBN13 9781594160882
- ISBN10 1594160880
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 224
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2009
- Sprache Englisch
- Bindung Taschenbuch
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Geschichte AsiensChina and the West. A short history of their contact from ancient times to the fall of the Manchu Dynasty
Editorial WESTHOLME PUBLISHING
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
This is a concise, informative, and entertaining account of the long and fascinating history between China and the West. Even before Chinese or Western writings recognized the existence of one another at opposite points of the compass, there was mercantile trade between the two civilizations - with silk being coveted by the ancient Greeks and Romans without knowledge of its origins. At the fall of the Manchu Dynasty in the early twentieth century, when China began its modern restoration as a world power, China and the West had already shared more than two millennia of history. "China and the West", first published in 1925, is a thoroughly engaging introduction to the long and fascinating contact between East and West. Covering every period and key personality before the twentieth century - from General Chang Ch'ien, a Chinese envoy who travelled west in the second century B.C., to Marco Polo, the Mongol ascendancy, and the Opium War - all based on primary source materials.á
William Edward Soothill (1861-1935) was a leading authority on Chinese language, life, and affairs, and a Professor of Chinese at Oxford University.