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Great state : China and the world / Timothy Brook.

by Brook, Timothy, 1951-

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Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2020.

China -- Foreign relations -- History.

China -- History.

9780062950987 (hc.)

Alternate title:

China and the world

xxii, 442 p. : ill. (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : ten thousand countries : Vancouver, 2019 -- The Great Khan and his portraitist : Xanadu, 1280 -- The blue princess and the Il-khan : Tabriz, 1295 -- The plague : Caffa, 1346 -- The eunuch and his hostage : Galle, 1411 -- The castaway and the horse trader : Zhejiang/Beijing, 1488 -- The pirate and the bureaucrat : Canton, 1517 -- The Englishman and the goldsmith : Bantam, 1604 -- The missionary and his convert : Nanjing, 1616 -- The occupied : The Yangzi Delta, 1645 -- The Lama and the prince : Kokonor, 1719 -- The merchant and his man : Ostend/Canton, 1793 -- The photographer and his coolie : Johannesburg, 1905 -- The collaborator and his lawyer : Shanghai, 1946 -- Epilogue : one hundred and ninety-three countries : New York, 1971/Quito, 2010.

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