
Great State
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Maps
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction: Ten Thousand Countries: Vancouver, 2019
- The Yuan Great State
- 1: The Great Khan and His Portraitist: Xanadu, 1280
- 2: The Blue Princess and the Il-khan: Tabriz, 1295
- 3: The Plague: Caffa, 1346
- The Ming Great State
- 4: The Eunuch and His Hostage: Ceylon, 1411
- 5: The Castaway and the Horse Trader: Zhejiang/Beijing, 1488
- 6: The Pirate and the Bureaucrat: Canton, 1517
- 7: The Englishman and the Goldsmith: Bantam, 1604
- 8: The Missionary and His Convert: Nanjing, 1616
- The Qing Great State
- 9: The Occupied: The Yangzi Delta, 1645
- 10: The Lama and the Prince: Kokonor, 1719
- 11: The Merchant and His Man: Ostend/Canton, 1793
- 12: The Photographer and His Coolie: Johannesburg, 1905
- The Republic
- 13: The Collaborator and His Lawyer: Shanghai, 1946
- Epilogue: One Hundred and Ninety-Three Countries: New York, 1971/Quito, 2010
- Notes
- Index
- Photo Section
- About the Author
- Also by Timothy Brook
- Copyright
- About the Publisher
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