China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800: Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions

by John E. Wills, Jr , With contributions by John Cranmer-Byng , Willard J. Peterson, Jr , John W. Witek

• ISBN13: 9780521432603
• ISBN10: 052143260X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the fullest and clearest available summaries, based on sources in Chinese and in European languages, making this information accessible to students and scholars interested in the growing connections among continents and civilizations in the early modern period.

Table of Contents

Map	p. ii
Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Conventions	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Maritime Europe and the Ming	p. 24
Learning from Heaven: The Introduction of Christianity and Other Western Ideas into Late Ming China	p. 78
Catholic Missions and the Expansion of Christianity, 1644-1800	p. 135
Trade and Diplomacy with Maritime Europe, 1644-c.1800	p. 183
Bibliography	p. 255
Index	p. 287
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