{"product_id":"chans-great-continent-china-in-western-minds","title":"Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eChan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJonathan D Spence\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393027471\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW W Norton \u0026amp; Co Inc\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1998\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003e Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eChina 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 mighty 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. Peopling Spence's account are Iberian adventurers, Jesuit missionaries, Enlightenment synthesizers, spinners of the dreamy cult of Chinoiserie, American observers such as Bret Harte and Mark Twain, and diplomats from Lord Macartney to Henry Kissinger. Their visions, alternately coarse and subtle, generous and vicious, outline the West's image as readily as they do China's.\u003cp\u003eChina has commanded the attention of the West for seven centuries, and here Spence once again compels our attention with his new history of China's presence in Western minds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W W Norton \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds | Jonathan D Spence | Regular hardback | 9780393027471 | Used: Like New | Asian History 1550995","offer_id":50575818096898,"sku":"1550995","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81xiGcxag7L.jpg?v=1790896169","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/chans-great-continent-china-in-western-minds","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}