Description: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.Contents:Maritime Europe and the Ming / John E. Wills, Jr. --Learning from heaven : the introduction of Christianity and other Western ideas into late Ming China / Willard J. Peterson --Catholic missions and the Chinese reaction to Christianity, 1644-1800 / John W. Witek --Trade and diplomacy under the Qing / John L. Cranmer-Byng and John E. Wills, Jr.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800: Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions. To get started finding China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800: Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800: Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions
Description: 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.Contents:Maritime Europe and the Ming / John E. Wills, Jr. --Learning from heaven : the introduction of Christianity and other Western ideas into late Ming China / Willard J. Peterson --Catholic missions and the Chinese reaction to Christianity, 1644-1800 / John W. Witek --Trade and diplomacy under the Qing / John L. Cranmer-Byng and John E. Wills, Jr.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800: Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions. To get started finding China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800: Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.