Address at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 11 December 2001
… goods from within the borders of the Tang Empire and a western market that specialized in exotic goods from India, … anywhere in the world, could be had for a price in the western market of Chang'an." (1994: 35) It is clear from … gift of a giraffe. By the 1700 and 1800s, onwards, Western expeditions of plunder, slavery, wars of domination, …