Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe by David Porter

Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe

David Porter

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From the first successful Jesuit mission in 1583 until the disastrous failure of the British trade embassy in 1816, China's cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, and s...

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