Barbarians at the Gate. Beijing, Biography of an Imperial Capital / Episode 2 :

Beijing is where China and the outside world met, mediated, and collided. For centuries, it straddled the boundary between Chinese civilization and the nomadic tribes of Central Asia. In Beijing too, Jesuit missionaries first introduced Western science to the Chinese emperors who later fled the city...

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Corporate Author: BBC Worldwide Ltd
Format: Electronic Video
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : BBC Worldwide Ltd, [2008]
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