Chinese roundabout : essays in history and culture / Jonathan D. Spence.

New York : W.W. Norton, [1992], ©1992.

xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

lst ed.

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

The Paris years of Arcadio Huang.--The peregrinations of Mendes Pinto.--Matteo Ricci and the ascent to Peking.--Gamble in China.--Malraux's Temptation.--Looking east : the long view.--The seven ages of K'ang-hsi.--The energies of Ming life.--A painter's circles.--Collapse of a purist.--A vibrant doctrine.--The dialogue of Chinese science.--Being Chinese.--Food.--Medicine.--Taxes.--Opium.--Cock's blood and Browning pistols.--Film and politics : Bai Hua's Bitter love.--Tiananmen.--Poetry and physics : the spirits of opposition.--Arthur Wright.--Arthur Waley.--John Fairbank.--Fang Chao-ying

Includes bibliographic references (p. [355]-386) and index