Orientalist Knowledge and Social Theories: China and the European Conceptions of East-West Differences from 1600 to 1900

Sociological Theory

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 254-280

  Hung, Ho Fung ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9558.00188     Document Type: Article

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