Overview: Provides a comparative study of five Western embassies to China between the 13th and 18th centuries.Offers key insights into the development of global modernity through Europe’s early encounter with C.This text is a timely and wide-ranging study providing essential background to the development of global modernity through the European encounter with China. Considering differing notions of peace, empire, trade, religion, and diplomacy as touchstones in the relations between China and Europe on mutuality, the book examines five encounters with France, Portugal, Holland, the pope, and R
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