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4.0 out of 5 stars Now the other side please, October 11, 2007
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This review is from: Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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
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Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe
Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe by David Porter (Hardcover - July 1, 2002)
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