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Reviewed on December 1, 1998
The enigma that is China has exercised a powerful attraction on Western minds for centuries. Travelers, sojourners, and those who have visited the country only in their imagination have offered us a kaleidoscope of Chinese exoticism, utopias and dystopias, realities and phantasms. Only Spence, the Yale historian and master storyteller (e.g., The Search for Modern Chi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More