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Barbarians & Mandarins :Thirteen centuries of western travelers in China

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FIRST AND FOREMOST, this is a book about people, about travelers and their motives and their adventures and about their reluc- tant hosts at journey's end. Diplomatic and political histories, filled as they are with broad sweeps and heavy laden with grand signifi- cances, often seem to lose sight of the fact that history is made by people and, when written, must be read by people, that but for the farmer in his field there would be no governments and no prime ministers to govern them, that but for early travelers making their ways into unknown lands there would be no ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary for there would be no contacts between country and country, people and people, for them to maintain. History then, if we look at it in this way, is, in the words of Carlyle, the essence of innumerable biographies." Here in this book we are dealing with the prime stuff of history-the people in whose actions its essence resides in the belief that along the way we shall follow for so many centuries from Europe and America to the Middle Kingdom there is a sig-nificance that leaps the gulf of time and bears on the present day"

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Call Number

915.1 Cam b

Publisher

New york and Tokyo : John Weatherill., 1970

Collation

443 pages

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0802724035

Classification

915.1

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Subject(s)

HISTORY
Culture

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