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From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the Wests relationship with Asia consisted for the most part in outrageous tales of monsters and giants of silk and spices transshipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away By the 20th century much of Asia may have come under Western rule after centuries of warfare but its intellectual artistic and spiritual influence was fighting back

The Light of Asia is a wonderfully varied and entertaining history of this vexed confused but centrally important relationship From Marco Polo onwards Asia has been both a source of genuine fascination and equally genuine failures of comprehension China India and Japan were all acknowledged to be both great civilizations and in crude ways superseded by the West Christopher Hardings captivating gallery of geniuses adventurers and conmen celebrates Asias impact on the West in all its variety

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