Great state : China and the world
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062950987 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
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xxii, 442 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 24 cm - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : ten thousand countries -- The Great Khan and his portraitist : Xanadu, 1280 -- The blue princess and the Il-khan : Tabriz, 1295 -- The plague : Caffa, 1346 -- The eunuch and his hostage : Galle, 1411 -- The castaway and the horse trader : Zhejiang/Beijing, 1488 -- The pirate and the bureaucrat : Canton, 1517 -- The Englishman and the goldsmith : Bantam, 1604 -- The missionary and his convert : Nanjing, 1616 -- The occupied : The Yangzi Delta, 1645 -- The Lama and the prince : Kokonor, 1719 -- The merchant and his man : Ostend/Canton, 1793 -- The photographer and his coolie : Johannesburg, 1905 -- The collaborator and his lawyer : Shanghai, 1946 -- Epilogue : one hundred and ninety-three countries : New York, 1971/Quito, 2010. |
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Subject: | China Foreign relations China History |
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