The Chan's Great Continent by Jonathan Spence
An analytical cultural history that traces how Western travelers, missionaries, diplomats, and intellectuals perceived and misperceived China in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using vivid case studies to show how admiration, fascination, condescension, and fear shaped popular images and policy; it examines how these biased portrayals influenced diplomacy, trade, missionary work and imperial interventions, and how evolving Western narratives both reflected and affected China’s responses to crisis and change.
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