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1368
China and the Making of the Modern World
Ali Humayun Akhtar

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Contents
2 Global Beijing under the Great Ming
3 Picturing China in Persian along the Silk Routes
4 Trading with China in Malay along the Spice Routes
5 Europe's Search for the Spice Islands
6 A Sino-Jesuit Tradition of Science and Mapmaking
7 Porcelain across the Dutch Empire
8 Tea across the British Empire
9 China's Eclipse and Japan's Modernization