To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960 |
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... Manchu hands . Presumably he kept his scepticism to himself , since his military advice was in- creasingly sought ; in 1643 he was ordered to submit designs for improved fortifications in Peking , and in 1644 was sent to check the ...
... Manchu hands . Presumably he kept his scepticism to himself , since his military advice was in- creasingly sought ; in 1643 he was ordered to submit designs for improved fortifications in Peking , and in 1644 was sent to check the ...
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... Manchu armies from the north , and Schall seems for the first time to have called in question the whole Jesuit ... Manchus , set fire to the area in which Schall lived , the house where he had stored all his mathematical books was spared ...
... Manchu armies from the north , and Schall seems for the first time to have called in question the whole Jesuit ... Manchus , set fire to the area in which Schall lived , the house where he had stored all his mathematical books was spared ...
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... Manchu Emperor accepted the evidence of Schall's superior skills and made him director of the Bureau of Astronomy . Now that Schall had become an established official in the Ch'ing bureaucracy he had to make the most of his new position ...
... Manchu Emperor accepted the evidence of Schall's superior skills and made him director of the Bureau of Astronomy . Now that Schall had become an established official in the Ch'ing bureaucracy he had to make the most of his new position ...
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To God Through the Stars | 3 |
Bodies or Souls | 34 |
Glorious Days of Looting | 57 |
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