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.

This text addresses the issue of two cultures in contact at a crucial period in history allowing students access to problems of contact on the soil of China and reactions and solutions by both parties"--

This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China.

This unique work examines the role played by sexuality in the historical encounter between China and the West.

How the Jesuit accomodation to internal events in China laid the foundation for modern study of China in the West.

Conversely in China, there were periodic outbreaks of hostility and violence against foreigners. This book explores the interracial relationships of twenty-two people who, transcended these obstacles to cross color lines and fall in love.

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.

Their love affairs projected them up the ladder of American success as they damned one another to their deaths. This is a true story.

They claimed that Chinese commentators erred in viewing these ancient texts as records of history when in fact they were works of metaphorical and figurative meaning.

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 ...