From the Book - First U.S. edition.
Introduction : ten thousand countries : Vancouver, 2019
The Great Khan and his portraitist : Xanadu, 1280
The blue princess and the Il-khan : Tabriz, 1295
The eunuch and his hostage : Galle, 1411
The castaway and the horse trader : Zhejiang/Beijing, 1488
The pirate and the bureaucrat : Canton, 1517
The Englishman and the goldsmith : Bantam, 1604
The missionary and his convert : Nanjing, 1616
The occupied : The Yangzi Delta, 1645
The Lama and the prince : Kokonor, 1719
The merchant and his man : Ostend/Canton, 1793
The photographer and his coolie : Johannesburg, 1905
The collaborator and his lawyer : Shanghai, 1946
Epilogue : one hundred and ninety-three countries : New York, 1971/Quito, 2010.
