506 Pages
by
Routledge
490 Pages
by
Routledge
490 Pages
by
Routledge
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This penetrating study of China’s social and cultural contacts with the West, first published in 1979, analyses the early images that China and the West had of one another, and the illusions and misconceptions that arose from these images. The book centres on the question, why did China fail to become modernised through contact with the West before the 1930s? The author examines the roles... Read more
Part 1. Agents 1. Images and Image-Makers 2. Missionaries and Converts 3. Students and Scholars 4. Residents and Immigrants Part 2. Changes 5. Process of Change 6. Politics and the Law 7. Economy 8. Society 9. Culture
Biography
Jerome Ch'en is Emeritus Professor of East Asian History, York University, Toronto.
