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Columbus called the lands he discovered and believed to be parts of China "the beginning of the East, " and his aberrations, delusions, and fantasies form this compelling novel's spiritual center

Columbus called the lands he discovered and believed to be parts of China "the beginning of the East, " and his aberrations, delusions, and fantasies form this compelling novel's spiritual center

In locations ranging from the archives of Imperial China to a rare book shop in Mexico City, a Chinese American historian discovers six anonymous documents in Spanish and Chinese, and constructs them into a years-long correspondence between the Chinese Emperor Wanli and Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote. Utilizing his vast historical knowledge and linguistic abilities, the historian draws connections across the disparate geography of the 17...

An exploration of the act of collecting and the cultural implications of a family collection in the Chinese context