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Embassies to China : Diplomacy and Cultural Encounters Before the Opium Wars
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Introduction: Embassies and Failures.- Making "Peace" with the East.- Portugal and "Empire".- Holland and "Trade".- The Pope's "Religion".- Russia and "Diplomacy".- Epilogue: "Embassies" to Europe.

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Michael Keevak is Professor of Foreign Languages at National Taiwan University, where he has taught since 1993. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (2011), winner of the Academia Sinica Book Award in Humanities and Social Sciences in 2013.

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