{"product_id":"the-light-of-asia-a-history-of-western-fascination-with-the-east","title":"The Light of Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the time of the ancient Greeks onward, the relationship of the western world with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of Asia might have come under Western rule after centuries of warfare, but its intellectual, artistic and spiritual influence was fighting back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Light of Asia\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderfully varied and entertaining history of the many ways in which Asia has shaped European and North American culture over centuries of tangled and dynamic encounters, and the central importance of this vexed and often confused relationship. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Marco Polo onward, 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 China, India and Japan were all acknowledged to be both great civilizations and in crude ways seen as superseded by the West. From Chicago to Calcutta, and from antiquity to the new millennium, this is a rich and involved story of misunderstandings and sincere connection, of inspiration and falsehood, of geniuses, adventurers and con-men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher Harding","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44965888720943,"sku":"9780241434444","price":1999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9780241434444.jpg?v=1771387707","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/the-light-of-asia-a-history-of-western-fascination-with-the-east","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}