Foreigners and Faiths in Old China

How did the Mongols live, eat and make war? Did Laozi go west and teach the Buddha? When did Islam really reach China? Who betrayed the Song to the Mongols? Kuwabara Jitsuzō (1871-1931), the Kyoto historian of China's foreigners, answers in four pieces written between 1905 and 1923.

Translated directly from the Japanese, with a translator's note and endnotes; the Pu Shougeng study is given in its main text, as transmitted.