To the Victorians, the Chinese were invariably "inscrutable." The meaning and provenance of this impression—and, most importantly, its workings in nineteenth-

Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationshi

Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationshi

The most common Buddhist practice in Asia is bowing, yet Buddhist and Christian Responses to the Kowtow Problem is the first study of Buddhist obeisance in Chin