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Foster Stockwell Order No. 7044 7119031791 Paperback Foreign Languages Press Pub 2002 272 English 5.5 x 8 This book traces significant points in the history of Western exploration in China, and its business with China. It also touches on many other highlights, including several explorations made by various Westerners. Apart from giving some basic facts about China, the book also casts some insight into the historical and economic development of China, especially the period over the past five decades. In doing so, it helps give an understanding of the way Chinese think and do business, so that Westerners can be better prepared for their roles as they engage in trade with China.

This book, by the American Foster Stockwell, is about the status of the five religions practiced in China today and points to places of religious interest for the tourist. China, the birthplace of Taoism, is also a land of many other religions. Some, imported from elsewhere, were profoundly changed by their contact with Chinese culture. Buddhism thus developed unique Chinese sects and movements, and today has the largest following in China. During the Tang dynasty, there was a thriving Jewish settlement, and during the Yuan dynasty Muslims ruled this vast land. Jesuit Catholics were advisers to the emperor in the 1500s and Protestants set up many noted schools and hospitals after 1807.