Peter C. Perdue

Peter C. Perdue is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.

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Illustrations depicting smallpox from the Imperially Commissioned Golden Mirror of Medical Learning, published in 1742.
Illustrations depicting smallpox from the Imperially Commissioned Golden Mirror of Medical Learning, published in 1742.

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