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The Travels of Marco Polo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 790

The Travels of Marco Polo

Volume 1 of 2-volume set. One of the greatest books of all time — a vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, political systems, much more. 200 illustrations, 32 maps and site plans.

Chinese History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1220

Chinese History

Endymion Wilkinson's bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. In this latest edition, now in a bigger format, its scope has been dramatically enlarged by the addition of one million words of new text. Twelve years in the making, the new manual introduces students to different types of transmitted, excavated, and artifactual sources from prehistory to the twentieth century. It also examines the context in which the sources were produced, preserved, and received, the problems of research and interpretation associated with them, and the best, most up-to-date secondary works. Because the writing of history has always played a central role in Chinese politics and culture, special attention is devoted to the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese historiography.

The Travels of Marco Polo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 899

The Travels of Marco Polo

A vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, politicals, more.

T'oung-pao
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 152

T'oung-pao

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1898
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Perpetual Fire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

A Perpetual Fire

  • Categories: Art

After serving as a missionary and then foreign advisor to Qing officials from 1887 to 1911, John Ferguson became a leading dealer of Chinese art, providing the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and other museums with their inaugural collections of paintings and bronzes. In multiple publications dating to the 1920s and 1930s, Ferguson made the controversial claim that China’s autochthonous culture was the basis of Chinese art. His two Chinese language reference works, still in use today, were produced with essential help from Chinese scholars. Emulating these “men of culture” with whom he lived and worked in Peking, Ferguson gathered paintings, bronzes, rubbings, ...

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1304

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1897
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1096

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1897
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Has appendices.

The Travels of Marco Polo (Illustrated)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1866

The Travels of Marco Polo (Illustrated)

The Venetian adventurer Marco Polo traveled from Europe to Asia in the late thirteenth century, as immortalised in his seminal work of travel literature. It describes Polo’s assorted travels throughout Asia and his experiences in the sumptuous court of Kublai Khan. Composed at a time when very little was known about the Far East, Polo’s account opened new vistas to the European mind, allowing Western horizons to expand. His description of Japan set a definite goal for Christopher Columbus in his journey of 1492, while Polo’s detailed discoveries of spices encouraged Western merchants to seek new sources and break trading monopolies. The wealth of geographic information recorded by Polo...

The Geographical Journal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 676

The Geographical Journal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1895
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 974

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1896
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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