# The Question of Hu

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- Book: [The Question of Hu](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-spence/the-question-of-hu) ([The Question of Hu.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-spence/the-question-of-hu.md))
- Authors: [Jonathan Spence](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-spence)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-580-0
- Pages: 208
- Published: 1989-10-23
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This lively and elegant book by the acclaimed historian Jonathan D. Spence reconstructs an extraordinary episode in the early intercourse between Europe and China. It is the story of John Hu, a lowly but...