Describe the role played by trade in the history of Sino-European relations from Yuan times to the Opium Wars. In your answer you should consider both the commodities that were traded and the merchants who engaged in the trade. 2.Assess the roles of the Jesuits in China as mediators between Chinese and European culture and thought. In what ways, specifically, did they convey information about China to Europe, and about Europe to China? Which of these two processes do feel to have been more significant historically? 3.Chart the changing literary and visual representations of China by Westerners from the 13th century centuries to modern times (the 19th-20th centuries). Does the history of that representation divide into discernable periods? If so, what were those periods and what were their characteristic features?
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