Chinese roundabout : essays in history and culture / Jonathan D. Spence.

The Paris years of Arcadio Huang
The peregrinations of Mendes Pinto
Matteo Ricci and the ascent to Peking
Gamble in China
Malraux's Temptation
Looking east : the long view
The seven ages of K'ang-hsi
The energies of Ming life
A painter's circles
Collapse of a purist
A vibrant doctrine
The dialogue of Chinese science
Being Chinese
Food
Medicine
Taxes
Opium
Cock's blood and Browning pistols
Film and politics : Bai Hua's Bitter love
Tiananmen
Poetry and physics : the spirits of opposition
Arthur Wright
Arthur Waley
John Fairbank
Fang Chao-ying.