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Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The last eight centuries of China's relationship with the world told through the eyes of traders, invaders, civil servants, visionaries, and traitors
Great State: China and the World by Timothy Brook
49.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at ...Show more
Mr Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea by Timothy Brook
22.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an ...Show more
Mr Selden's Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea by Timothy Brook
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an ...Show more
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