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, Jesuit missionaries first introduced Western science to the Chinese emperors. |
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Title: | Barbarians at the Gate | |
Air Date: | October 20, 2010 | |
Runtime: | 50 min | |
Genres: | History | |
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