An American pioneer of Chinese Studies in cross-cultural perspective : : Benjamin Bowen Carter as an agent of global knowledge / / by Yeung Man Shun.

Benjamin Bowen Carter (1771-1831), one of the first Americans to speak and read Chinese, studied Chinese in Canton and advocated its use in diplomacy decades before America established a formal relationship with China. Drawing on rediscovered manuscripts, this book reconstructs Carter's multili...

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Superior document:East and West (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 12
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:East and West (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 12.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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