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

In this volume, D.E. Mungello dispels the myth that China was a silent partner in the dialogue between Eastern and Western civilizations.

Based on manuscripts from the once inaccessible former Jesuit library of Zikawei in Shanghai, this book breaks new ground in focusing on the generation that followed Matteo Ricci and other luminaries of the early China mission.

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

In this important work, D.E. Mungello corrects a major misreading of Chinese history by arguing that Christianity did not die out in China after the Communist takeover.

Fr. Alessio Randanini followed him to Macau in 1741. The story of this scandal has remained largely untold for nearly three centuries.

As an investigation into how that commitment was pursued and into some of the reasons why it failed, this book seeks to present Leibniz' experience a both historical record and contemporary guide.