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CHINA AND THE WEST: A CONSTANT FASCINATION FOR EACH OTHER A review article of some recent publications

CHINA AND THE WEST: A CONSTANT FASCINATION FOR EACH OTHER A review article of some recent... CHINA AND THE WEST: A CONSTANT FASCINATION FOR EACH OTHER A review article of some recent publications Arnulf Camps ofm. In the beginning of the Christian era China was known in the West as a country trading silk and that is why it was called Serica. When Nestorian monks smuggled silkworm eggs from China to the West during the seventh century and Byzantium had begun its own silk industry, trade between Byzantium and China felt on bad times. Soon Muslim power placed a curtain between China and the West. It was the threat from the Mongol empire in the first half of the thirteenth century that prompted popes and princes to send embassies to Mongolia and China. The first to arrive in Khanbaliq or Beijing were the Polos and in 1294 the first franciscan, John of Monte Corvino, arrived. He died in 1328 as archbi- shop of Beijing. By the end of the Mongol dynasty in 1368 the franciscan mission was interrupted, but he fascination for China was kept alive through the letters and reports the missionaries had written. In a scholarly work, based on the study of many manuscripts, Folker E. Reichert, Begegnungen mit China: die Entdeckung http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Exchange Brill

CHINA AND THE WEST: A CONSTANT FASCINATION FOR EACH OTHER A review article of some recent publications

Exchange , Volume 25 (2): 180 – Jan 1, 1996

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Brill
Copyright
© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0166-2740
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1572-543X
DOI
10.1163/157254396X00224
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CHINA AND THE WEST: A CONSTANT FASCINATION FOR EACH OTHER A review article of some recent publications Arnulf Camps ofm. In the beginning of the Christian era China was known in the West as a country trading silk and that is why it was called Serica. When Nestorian monks smuggled silkworm eggs from China to the West during the seventh century and Byzantium had begun its own silk industry, trade between Byzantium and China felt on bad times. Soon Muslim power placed a curtain between China and the West. It was the threat from the Mongol empire in the first half of the thirteenth century that prompted popes and princes to send embassies to Mongolia and China. The first to arrive in Khanbaliq or Beijing were the Polos and in 1294 the first franciscan, John of Monte Corvino, arrived. He died in 1328 as archbi- shop of Beijing. By the end of the Mongol dynasty in 1368 the franciscan mission was interrupted, but he fascination for China was kept alive through the letters and reports the missionaries had written. In a scholarly work, based on the study of many manuscripts, Folker E. Reichert, Begegnungen mit China: die Entdeckung

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Published: Jan 1, 1996

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