Encounter and Dialogue

Author: Zhu Xinping
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book includes 26 essays covering Sino-Western trade, diplomacy, missionary activities, and cultural exchange during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. It explores cultural interactions and communication across different regions, comparative studies in linguistics and literature, dialogues between religion and science, the conception and practice of art, the collection and discovery of archival documents on Sino-Western relations, as well as research in historical science.