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The Question of Hu
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ISBN10: 0679725806
ISBN13: 9780679725800
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Oct 23 1989
Pages: 187
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.16 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679725800
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Oct 23 1989
Pages: 187
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.16 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
This lively and elegant book by the acclaimed historian Jonathan D. Spence reconstructs an extraordinary episode in the early intercourse between Europe and China. It is the story of John Hu, a lowly but devout Chinese Catholic, who in 1722 accompanied a Jesuit missionary on a journey to France--a journey that ended with Hu's confinement in a lunatic asylum. At once a triumph of historical detective work and a gripping narrative, The Question of Hu deftly probes the collision of tw ocultures, with their different definitions of faith, madness, and moral obligation.
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