Embassies to China Diplomacy and Cultural Encounters Before the Opium Wars

This text is a timely and wide-ranging study providing essential background to the development of global modernity through the European encounter with China. Considering differing notions of peace, empire, trade, religion, and diplomacy as touchstones in the relations between China and Europe on mut...

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Autor principal: Keevak, Michael (-)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : Springer Singapore 2017.
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Embassies and Failures
  • Making "Peace" with the East
  • Portugal and "Empire"
  • Holland and "Trade"
  • The Pope's "Religion"
  • Russia and "Diplomacy"
  • Epilogue: "Embassies" to Europe.