Wills, John E. China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800: Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions (2010)

China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection.

Introduction     John E. Wills, Jr;

1. Maritime Europe and the Ming       John E. Wills, Jr;

2. Learning from heaven: the introduction of Christianity and other Western ideas into late Ming China                    Willard J. Peterson;

3. Catholic missions and the Chinese reaction to Christianity, 1644-1800                   John W. Witek;

4. Trade and diplomacy under the Qing           John L. Cranmer-Byng and John E. Wills, Jr.

John E. Wills, Jr, is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Southern California. He is the author of many books, articles and chapters on China.

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