East-West passage; the travel of ideas, arts, and inventions between Asia and the Western world.
This work examines the cultural interchange between Asia and the Western world from earliest times until the modern era. Its purpose is to show something of the still largely unacknowledged debt the peoples of the world owe to each other's civilizations and cultures. This book discusses some of...
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Taplinger
[1971]
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Realms of gold : From distant Ophir ; In the shadow of Olympus ; The Silk Road and the monsoon wind
- pt. II. The fertile centuries : The funeral of the world ; The triumph of the Son of God ; Ancient wisdom and foreign riches
- pt. III. The augmentation of the Indies : The opening door ; The face and state of things
- pt. IV. The dream of Cathay : Confucius conquers Europe ; The Chinese madness ; A floating world
- pt. V. The crescent and the lotus : Out of the Arabian nights ; The fatal ring
- pt. VI. The discovery of the West : The Kingdom of Christ ; The empire of learning ; The republic of man
- Postscript : A common heritage.