To Change China: Western Advisers in China
To change China was the goal of foreign missionaries, soldiers, doctors, teachers, engineers, and revolutionaries for more than three hundred years. But the Chinese, while eagerly accepting Western technical advice, clung steadfastly to their own religious and cultural traditions. As a new era of...
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To change China was the goal of foreign missionaries, soldiers, doctors, teachers, engineers, and revolutionaries for more than three hundred years. But the Chinese, while eagerly accepting Western technical advice, clung steadfastly to their own religious and cultural traditions. As a new era of relations between China and the United States begins, the tales in this volume will serve as cautionary histories for businessmen, diplomats, students, or any other foreigners who foolishly believe that they can transform this vast, enigmatic country.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140055283 (0140055282)
Publish date: March 27th 1980
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 335
Edition language: English
For starters, in 1644 a Jesuit missionary named Adman Schall was made director of the Chinese Bureau of Astronomy (appointed by the Emperor's grand secretary) and this was no ordinary appointment. Before this moment China had never dreamed that anything of value might be found in the West. What new ...
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