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Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe

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Four centuries of meetings between far-east and west describes Porter in this book in a very slow sort of English. His style is academic, his sentences long and complicated with a lot of syntactical constructions so to say. For me as a notnativereader, but used to Charles Darwin in his Correspondence, was it sometimes very difficult to follow. Nevertheless I hope David Porter will visit China and writes the same story from the Chinese point of view. What were the Zhongguoren of the current Qing-dynasty thinking while meeting with the Barbarians form the west? Are there written reports in Chinese about their discussions and cultural exchanges?
laur (lawrence) crouzen