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The Reith Lectures: Archive 1976-2012 by BBC

Jun 10, 200843:02Society & Culture

Jonathan Spence lectures about China. Spence examines China's relations with the United Kingdom through three centuries of trade, warfare, unequal treaties and missionary endeavours that shaped their mutual perceptions.

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