About this title: The myth that Chinese civilization is monolithic, unchanging and perenially cut off from the rest of the world has long obscured China's diverse and dynamic history. Drawing on research, the author provides an accessible account of China's fertile relations with other Asian cultures and the West from the days of the Silk Road to the present. The author argues that well before the arrival of Europeans in East Asia, China was integrated into a wide-ranging network of commercial, intellectual, religious and cultural contacts. Among the most influential features of this traffic was the spread of ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780393046939ISBN:0393046931
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new archival cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393320510ISBN:0393320510
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Binding: Hardcover/Dust Jacket
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780393046939ISBN:0393046931
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Edition: First Edition, 1st Printing!
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780393046939ISBN:0393046931
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Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780393046939ISBN:0393046931
Description: New in New jacket. The Jesuit observatory with it's sextants, armillas, altazimuths and other instruments for measuring and predicting the behaviour of the heavens are chosen by the author as symbols of a long-standing, tangled cultural relationship between China and the West.... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780393046939ISBN:0393046931
Description: As New/As New. 5.75" x 8.5" Tall 0393046931 322 pages including index. Waley-Cohen argues that it is time to shed the myth long held in the West that Chinese civilizataion is monolithic, unchanging, and perennially cut off from the rest of the world. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2000-04
ISBN-13:9780393320510ISBN:0393320510
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1999-03-01
ISBN-13:9780393046939ISBN:0393046931
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Date Published: 31/03/1999
ISBN-13:9780393046939ISBN:0393046931
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