Title: The sextants of Beijing : global currents in Chinese history /
Authors: Waley-Cohen, Joanna.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.,
Year: 1999
Subjects: China Civilization Western influences; China Relations Europe.; Europe Relations China.
Contents: Early Chinese cosmopolitanism -- China and Catholicism in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries -- Foreign goods and foreign knowledge in the eighteenth century -- The turning of the tables, 1796-1860 -- Shields and swords, 1860-1914 -- Overcoming habits of mind, 1914-1949 -- Culture and conflict, 1949-1997.