The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds (1998)

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Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0393027473

Condition:  Very Good

The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. Now Jonathan Spence, our foremost historian of Chinese politics and culture, tells us in his elegant new book how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction of China and the might Khan, Kublai, in the 1270s to the China sightings of three twentieth-century writers of acknowledged genius—Kafka, Borges, and Calvino—Spence explores Western thought on China through a remarkable array of expression. - from the inside flap