Title The sextants of Beijing : global currents in Chinese history / Joanna Waley-Cohen

Edition First edition Published New York : W. W. Norton & Co., [1999] ©1999

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Description ix, 322 pages : maps ; 22 cm Contents 1. Early Chinese Cosmopolitanism -- 2. China and Catholicism in the Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries -- 3. Foreign Goods and Foreign Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century -- 4. The Turning of the Tables, 1796-1860 -- 5. Shields and Swords, 1860-1914 -- 6. Overcoming Habits of Mind, 1914-1949 -- 7. Culture and Conflict, 1949-1997 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-297) and index Notes English Subject Catholic Church -- China -- History SUBJECT China -- Civilization -- Western influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024005 China -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024032 China -- Relations -- Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114712 Europe -- Relations -- China. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115006 LC no. 98036897 ISBN 0393046931 0393320510

Other Titles Global currents in Chinese history

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