How to Kowtow
D.J. Enright: The thoughts of China, 29 July 1999
The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds
by Jonathan Spence.
Penguin, 279 pp., £20, May 1999,0 7139 9313 8 Show More
by Jonathan Spence.
Penguin, 279 pp., £20, May 1999,
“... either that hair-pulling in private quarrels was unseemly, or that stuffing chickens with water or sand to increase their weight and thus the profit margin did not befit a shopkeeper. No other Westerner approached the level of knowledge in Chinese culture, language and society attained by Matteo Ricci, the Italian Jesuit, and the subject of an earlier book by ... ”