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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements

A note to the reader

Introduction

1. The missionaries and the Middle Kingdom

2. Chinese visitors in Russia

3. Other roads to Cathay

A. Diverse travellers

B. The embassies from Russia

4. The land of the sage: China in the belletristic literature of eighteenth-century Russia

5. China and the intellectuals

A. The scholars

B. The philosophes

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

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      Publisher: Liverpool University Press
      Publication Date: 01/01/1984
      ISBN13: 9780729403115, 978-0729403115
      ISBN10: 0729403114

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements

      A note to the reader

      Introduction

      1. The missionaries and the Middle Kingdom

      2. Chinese visitors in Russia

      3. Other roads to Cathay

      A. Diverse travellers

      B. The embassies from Russia

      4. The land of the sage: China in the belletristic literature of eighteenth-century Russia

      5. China and the intellectuals

      A. The scholars

      B. The philosophes

      Conclusion

      Appendix

      Bibliography

      Index

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