{"product_id":"9789819527007","title":"Strangers at the Heavenly Court : The 1517 Portuguese Embassy to China (Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis open access book examines the first modern diplomatic contact between Europe and East Asia: the 1517 Portuguese embassy to China. The experience did not end well, for in 1521, the Ming Court decided to cut off relations, and a battle broke out between the Guangdong and Portuguese fleets. This work seeks to explain why this happened. Making extensive use of both Chinese and Western archival sources, it proposes a new interpretation—one that breaks with the traditional \"clash of civilizations\" viewpoint and focuses instead on the diversity of actors and the complex relationships between them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48870523175147,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":109.85,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9789819527007-1.jpg?v=1781771803","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9789819527007","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}