The traveler -- The envoy -- The student -- The scholar -- The diplomat -- The strategist -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Zhigang's passage on the White House visit in the 1877 and 1890 editions -- Appendix 2: Selected passages that appeared in the Chushi taixi jiyao (1890) but not in the Chushi taixi ji (1877)
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"Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, the countries of Europe were populated by untamable barbarians and unearthly immortals in the Chinese imagination. Firsthand Chinese accounts of Europe unraveled this perception"-- Provided by publisher.
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