Westerners in China : a history of exploration and trade, ancient times through the present / by Fos...
Westerners in China : a history of exploration and trade, ancient times through the present / by Fos...
Westerners in China : a history of exploration and trade, ancient times through the present / by Foster Stockwell.
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Publisher
Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., 2003.
Date
2003.
Call Numbers
N303.48251/ 6
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Language
English
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Physical content
vi, 226 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Some Basic Facts About China -- 2. Those Who Came by Three Silk Roads -- 3. China's First Contacts with the West -- 4. The Legacy of Marco Polo -- 5. Jesuits in China -- 6. Prized Goods from China -- 7. Early Western Exploration in Tibet and Yunnan -- 8. Aftermath of the Opium War -- 9. Americans...
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Publisher
Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., 2003.
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
2003.
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Summary
"This book traces Western exploration in and trade with China to the present day. It follows such highlights as exploration by the Russian Nikolay Przhevalsky; the travels of nineteenth-century women explorers; American Roy Chapman's discovery of the first fossilized dinosaur eggs; and the competition between two American explorers to be the first...
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Westerners in China : a history of exploration and trade, ancient times through the present / by Foster Stockwell.
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History of exploration and trade, ancient times through the present.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-221) and index.
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N303.48251/ 6
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ISBN
0786414049 (pbk.) :
9780786414048 (softcover : alk. paper)
0786414049 (softcover : alk. paper)
9780786414048 (pbk.) :
DDC
303.4825104
MMS ID
991017521799702626
