Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin holland award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds

award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage

She even gets a ringside seat at the Battle at the O

bringing a sophisticated neo-Marxist analysis to bear on a muti-faceted and endemic topic

and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin holland award-winning historian Stephen Platt shedsAuthor Contributor(s): Rosenbloom, Megan Publisher: Picador USA Date: 10 19 2021 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW