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The Western World and the Far East: Conflicting Relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Boleslaw Szczesniak
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Extract

The aim of this essay is to describe the nature of the relationships between two worlds, the Roman-Hellenistic and the Oriental; and speaking more precisely of the traditional and geographic division of mankind, we may say, Europe and the Far East. The relations go back to the age of the great nomadic migrations through the vast sea of the steppes, stretching from Mongolia through Central Asia to Asia Minor and the Black Sea.

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Research Article
Information
The Review of Politics , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , January 1964 , pp. 91 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1964

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References

1 Sansom, G. B., The Western World and Japan (New York, 1950), pp. 15ffGoogle Scholar.

2 For an excellent exposition of the interaction of the early European and Asiatic cultures, see Butterfield, H., The Origins of Modern Science, 1300–1800 (London, 1949), pp. 167 ffGoogle Scholar.

3 Jenkins, R. G., The Jesuits in China (London, 1894), p. 101Google Scholar.

4 Cf. Murdoch, James, A History of Japan (London, 1925), II, 299Google Scholar.

5 Ibid., II, 490.

6 For the Japanese missions see an excellent work by Boxer, C. R., The Christian Century in Japan, 1549–1650 (London, 1951)Google Scholar.

7 Huc, Abbé E., Le Christianisme en Chine, en Tartarie et au Thibet (4 vols. Paris, 1857), IV, 19Google Scholar, quoted in Rowbotham, A. H., Missionary and Mandarin (Berkeley, 1942), p. 196Google Scholar.