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The Shock Of the West
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THE QUESTION OF HU
By Jonathan D. Spence
Knopf. 180 pp. $18.95
FROM THE heaped rubble of the past, historian Jonathan Spence has
extracted a strange tale of adventure and foreign travel-the story of
a Chinese Catholic convert named John Hu who journeyed from Canton to
Paris in 1722. He was not the first Chinese to visit France, merely
one of the first; the trip was in any case the 18th-century
equivalent of going to the moon. When Hu got to Paris, he was locked
up as insane.
So the question of this book's title is in part the miserable
Hu's own query to a Jesuit missionary who visited him ...
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