Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh

European couple and a child playing with parrot, Qing dynasty hanging scroll, 18th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain.

‘The China Question’ by Ho-fung Hung review

In The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear Ho-fung Hung watches the West swing from Sinophilia to Sinophobia and back again.

Titlepage to Athanasius Kircher’s China illustrata, 1667. Public Domain.

Written in the Stars: How Old is China?

Chinese astronomers and the European Jesuits who worked alongside them found evidence of China’s antiquity in the heavens. Others were sceptical: how old was China really?