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Title: The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History by Joanna Waley-Cohen ISBN: 0-393-32051-0 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good analysis of western influence in China
Comment: Wonderfully written assessment of the Western Influence in China.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bucking the conventional wisdom of Chinese isolationism
Comment: Many Westerners have traditionally considered China to be an isolationist culture. They cite the Great Wall being designed to keep out foreigners and resistance to Christianity and the refusal of the McCartney mission in the 1790s to prove this. However, all through history, the Chinese have indeed engaged the world and have been influenced by it. Waley-Cohen does an excellent job of narrating this in her book.
She reveals all through Chinese history how the Chinese adopted religious ideas from overseas (notably India), science (initially from Islamic regions and later Westerners), to the 1960s, when many Westerners assumed that China was closed to the world because it was closed to them. In fact, China was open to other Asians and to Africans.
Waley-Cohen's writing is easily readible and is of value both to the China watcher like myself, as well as the layperson wishing to understand the "Middle Kingdom" a bit better.
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Title: The Heart of Redness: A Novel by Zakes Mda ISBN: 0312421745 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher ISBN: 0520084969 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Ambivalent Conquests : Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 by Inga Clendinnen, Alan Knight ISBN: 0521379814 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 27 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Green Gold: The Empire of Tea by Alan Macfarlane, Iris Macfarlane ISBN: 0091883091 Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group) Pub. Date: 06 February, 2003 |
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Title: The Question of Hu by Jonathan D. Spence ISBN: 0679725806 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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