It is commonly believed that the state is the product of unreconcilable class con-tradictions.While this thesis is undoubtedly correct since it embodies the nat
differentiates the famous Jesuit from the latter day missionaries who cameto China after the Opium War in the nineteenth century. Without the pro-tection of gun
deals with one of the two routes by which Chinese silk was exported more than two thousand years ago. The overland 'silk road' is quite well known, but