Barbarians at the Gate. Beijing, Biography of an Imperial Capital. Episode 2

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Beijing is where China and the outside world met, mediated, and collided. For centuries, it straddled the boundary between Chinese civilization and the nomadic tribes of Central Asia. In Beijing too, Jesuit missionaries first introduced Western science to the Chinese emperors who later fled the city in the face of advancing Western armies.

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50 min 31 sec

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Geography

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