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Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I’s first letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston’s letter to the Minister of China in 1840.Starting with Queen Elizabeth I’s letter to the Chinese Emperor and ending with the letter from Lord
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by Xin Liu ...

Series series Routledge New Diplomacy Studies
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The three-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2025, held in Xuzhou, China, during October 31–November 2, 2025.The 138 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 420 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer ... Read more

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AI 2025: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

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