In search of perfect clarity / Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè -- A perfume is best from afar : publishing China for Europe / Marcia Reed -- Christ and Confucius : accommodating Christian and Chinese beliefs / Paola Demattè -- From astronomy to heaven : Jesuit science and the conv…
"The majority of the printed works featured in China on Paper were instigated by European religious missions and trade embassies but shaped their authors' contact with Chinese literati, court officials, and emperors. These books and images targeted different audiences in two dis…
An authoritative analysis of Asia's modern relationship with the Western world is comprised of three essays that examine the strategies of Japan, China, and India while investigating Asia's twenty-first-century efforts to define itself independently of Western influence
Calligraphy and clocks -- The Buddhas at Qixia -- The skyward garden.
From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West. In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East's endeavor to adopt Western technology and all that we consider modern. He underscore…
An authoritative analysis of Asia's modern relationship with the Western world is comprised of three essays that examine the strategies of Japan, China, and India while investigating Asia's twenty-first-century efforts to define itself independently of Western influence.