Ancient Beijing and Western Civilization

This book is from the "Joint Academic Library" series, with a specialized topic and informative content. It is a comprehensive work in the field of cultural exchange history that has been rare in recent years. Beijing, as the ancient capital of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, played an important role in the history of cultural exchanges between China and the West. Western travelers, missionaries, diplomats, and merchants have come to Beijing since the Yuan Dynasty. They recorded their personal experiences in various genres such as notes, diaries, letters, and memoirs, and then brought them back to their homeland, forming the "Beijing Image" from the Western perspective. The author quotes relevant first-hand materials and writes a history of political and cultural exchanges between China and the West during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties based on the research results of Chinese and foreign scholars, allowing readers to glimpse the evolution of how the West look at China over the past thousand years.