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  • The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    Series series
    For the Chinese, the drive toward growing political and economic power is part of an ongoing effort to restore China's past greatness and remove the lingering memories of history's humiliations. This widely praised book explores the 1500–1800 period before China's decline, when the country was viewed as a leading world culture and power. Europe, by contrast, was in the early stages of emerging ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    Series series Critical Issues in World and International History
    For the Chinese, the drive toward growing political and economic power is part of an ongoing effort to restore China's past greatness and remove the lingering memories of history's humiliations. This widely praised book explores the 1500–1800 period before China's decline, when the country was viewed as a leading world culture and power. Europe, by contrast, was in the early stages of emerging ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The Chinese Rites Controversy

    Its History and Meaning

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    Series series Monumenta Serica Monograph Series
    This collection presents the proceedings of an international conference on the significance of the Rites Controversy in Sino-Western history, held in San Francisco in 1992. It contains fifteen articles by contemporary mainstream China scholars from four continents, including some of the most eminent names in Sinology today. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Interracial Lovers in Revolutionary China

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    In the twentieth century, China underwent a monumental dynastic change and was transformed from an outmoded monarchy into a modern communist state. This century of revolutionary change was marked by political upheaval and social chaos. It was a period in which Chinese began to go abroad to study and conduct business while foreigners came to China for economic opportunity and adventure. In the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • This Suffering Is My Joy

    The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    Tracing the little-known history of the first underground Catholic church in China, noted scholar D. E. Mungello illuminates the period between the imperial expulsion of foreign Christian missionaries in 1724 and their return with European colonialism in the 1800s. Few realize that this was the first time in which Chinese, rather than Europeans, came to control their own church as Chinese clergy ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Silencing of Jesuit Figurist Joseph de Prémare in Eighteenth-Century China

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    The image of a voice in the wilderness evokes an outcast who has been condemned and banished by society. That image fits the scholar-priest Joseph de Prémare who spent the last thirty-eight years of his life (1698-1736) mainly in remote areas of China. He was condemned to silence by not only his religious superiors, but also by intellectuals in Europe. He was silenced because his Figurist theories ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Catholic Invasion of China

    Remaking Chinese Christianity

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    Series series
    The culmination of D. E. Mungello’s forty years of study on Sino-Western history, this book provides a compelling and nuanced history of Roman Catholicism in modern China. As the author vividly shows, when China declined into a two-century cycle of poverty, powerlessness, and humiliation, the attitudes of Catholic missionaries became less accommodating than their famous Jesuit predecessors. He ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Remember This

    A Family in America

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    The Mungellos (pronounced mun-JEL-os) were Italian-American children of Vesuvius. Raffaele was a builder, Marianna was a businesswoman, Filippo died in a gang murder in Pittsburgh. They fled the threats of the Black Hand, going to a booming coal-mining town and opening movie theaters. Dominic graduated from college during the Great Depression. The shadow of the gang pursued them, leading to labor ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    In the spring of 1738, Fr. Bernardino Bevilacqua was hustled out of Shandong to quiet the uproar over his sexual seduction of young Chinese converts. Fr. Alessio Randanini followed him to Macau in 1741. The story of this scandal has remained largely untold for nearly three centuries. Among Christians in Shandong and southern Zhili provinces during the years 1650-1785, the spirit and the flesh ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Western Queers in China

    Flight to the Land of Oz

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    This unique work examines the role played by sexuality in the historical encounter between China and the West. Distinguished historian D. E. Mungello focuses especially on Western homosexuals who saw China as a place of escape from the homophobia of Europe and North America. His groundbreaking study traces the lives of two dozen men, many previously unknown to have same-sex desire, who fled to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • Christian Heretics in Late Imperial China

    Christian Inculturation and State Control, 1720-1850

    by Lars Peter Laamann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724, China's Christians were effectively cut off from all foreign theological guidance. The ensuing isolation forced China's Christian communities to become self-reliant in perpetuating the basic principles of their faith. Left to their own devices, the missionary seed developed into a panoply of indigenous traditions, with Christian ancestry ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Silence of the Gods

    The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples

    by Francis Young ...
    The formal conversion to Christianity in 1387 of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania seemingly marked the end of Europe's last 'pagan' peoples. But the reality was different. At the margins, often under the radar, around the dusky edgelands, pre-Christian religions endured and indeed continued to flourish for an astonishing five centuries. Silence of the Gods tells, for the first time, the remarkable ... Read more

    $27.09 USD