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  • Remapping the World in East Asia

    Toward a Global History of the “Ricci Maps”

    by Mario Cams, Professor Elke Papelitzky, Dr. Marco Caboara, Fangyi Cheng, Matthew Edney, Lin Hong, Florin-Stefan Morar, Richard A. Pegg, Jeanhyoung Soh0, Nicolas Standaert1, Yongjie Wang2, Yang Yulei3 ...
    When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo Japan, and Joseon Korea selectively encompassed elements of the late Renaissance worldview, leading to the creation of new artifacts that mitigated old and new knowledge in creative ways. Simultaneously, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Matteo Ricci

    A Jesuit in the Ming Court

    by Michela Fontana ...
    Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), the first of the early Jesuit missionaries of the China mission, is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeable biography of this fascinating and influential man, telling a deeply human and captivating story that still resonates today.Michela Fontana traces ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Plato Goes to China

    The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism

    by Shadi Bartsch ...
    The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime’s political agendaAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today’s China and how it views the West is to look at the astonishing ways Chinese intellectuals are interpreting—or is it misinterpreting?—the Greek classics. In Plato Goes to China, Shadi Bartsch ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • A Jesuit in the Forbidden City

    Matteo Ricci 1552-1610

    by R. Po-chia Hsia ...
    A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the cultural divides between China and the West by immersing himself in the language and culture of his hosts. Even 400 years later, he ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • On Friendship

    One Hundred Maxims for a Chinese Prince

    by Matteo Ricci ...
    Translated by Timothy Billings ...
    "On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."-Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship-the first book to be written in Chinese by a European-that instantly became a late Ming best seller ... Read more

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

    by D. E. Mungello ...
    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

    $39.69 USD

  • Travel Writings on Asia

    Curiosity, Identities, and Knowledge Across the East, c. 1200 to the Present

    Edited by Christian Mueller, Matteo Salonia ...
    Series series Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies
    This open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious, gathering knowledge, and shaping identities in their travel reflections on Asia. Thus, the actors open windows across time to present a profound overview of diverse descriptions and constructions of Asia. It is demonstrated that international and ... Read more

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  • Global History and New Polycentric Approaches

    Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System

    Edited by Manuel Perez Garcia, Lucio De Sousa ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its ... Read more

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  • The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities in Chinese History

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The Chinese Catholic Church traces its living roots back to the late sixteenth century and its historical roots back even further, to the Yuan dynasty. This book explores paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and the communities that produced them over several centuries. It argues for the emergence of distinctly Chinese Catholic identities as artistic representations of the Virgin Mary, at ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture

    by Richard J. Smith ...
    The Qing dynasty (1636–1912)—a crucial bridge between “traditional” and “modern” China—was remarkable for its expansiveness and cultural sophistication. This engaging and insightful history of Qing political, social, and cultural life traces the complex interaction between the Inner Asian traditions of the Manchus, who conquered China in 1644, and indigenous Chinese cultural traditions. Noted ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

    by Benjamin A. Elman ...
    During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Forming the Early Chinese Court

    Rituals, Spaces, Roles

    by Luke Habberstad ...
    Forming the Early Chinese Court builds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study of early Chinese court culture. Rejecting divides between literary, political, and administrative texts, Luke Habberstad examines sources from the Qin, Western Han, and Xin periods (221 BCE–23 CE) for insights into court society and ritual, rank, the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD