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The Search for Modern China
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I've read over twenty books on China, and this is one of the best resources out there. At first I was caught off guard that Spence started in the 16th or 17th century, however, it provides a lot of insight into China's development and goes into detail about China's interactions with the West and their reactions. I especially found the opium trade qui... »
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The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
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Aczel is a master craftsman and author who describes things in prose as if you might be there. I have read each of his books and recommend them all.
'The Jesuit & The Skull cogently and saliently prvides well documented discourse of how the FOOLS Across The Tiber(Vatican's Curia) operate to this very day, and is 100% correct.
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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia
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I have a weakness for Peter Hopkirk. He could write about dishwater and I would be enthralled. This outstanding writer serves up another tour de force about historic goings-on in the ruins of oases along the old Silk Road in western China. While Hopkirk pulls no punches in labeling as thievery the deeds of some of the explorers who ventured there, n... »
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The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
Matteo Ricci (1552-1616), an Italian Jesuit, entered China in 1583 to spread Catholicism in the largely Confucian country. In order to make a persuasive a... »
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