Encounters with China : Merchants, Missionaries and Mandarins

Wiltshire, Trea

ISBN 10: 9627283142 / ISBN 13: 9789627283140

Published by Formasia, np, 1995

About this Item

Cloth. Very Good+. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. "Spans a turbulent century of encounter that began when foreign merchants and missionaries first secured a tenuous foothold in China in t he 1840s, and ended when China again retreated into self-imposed isolation following the birth of the People's Republic in 1949" Many fine black & white photos. 179 pages. Oversize.

Seller Inventory # 7705

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Encounters with China : Merchants, Missionaries and Mandarins
• Publisher: Formasia, np
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9627283142
• ISBN 13: 9789627283140
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Encounters with China spans a turbulent century that began when foreigners first secured a foothold in China in the 1840s, and ended when China again retreated into self-imposed isolation following the birth of the People's Republic in 1949. This handsome book evokes an era of extraordinary encounters between East and West, between the aggressive breed of merchants that were a product of Europe's industrial revolution and the complacent mandarins of the world's oldest civilization, the Middle Kingdom of Manchu China.

Review

A valuable edition to the study of modern China -- The Far Eastern Economic Review