The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 - Paperback

by D. E. Mungello (Author)

This thoroughly updated edition provides an essential source of understanding the dynamics of East and West during the periods after the Age of Discovery. 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.

Author Biography

For the past half-century D. E. Mungello has been a leading scholar in Sino-Western history. From 1979 to 2016 he founded and edited a journal dedicated to the post-Mao Zedong era revival of contacts between Chinese and foreign historians. His books include Leibniz and Confucianism, Curious Land, The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800, The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785, Drowning Girls in China: Female Infanticide since 1650, Western Queers in China: Flight to the Land of Oz, The Catholic Invasion of China, This Suffering is my Joy: The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China and Interracial Lovers in Revolutionary China. He is the Professor of History Emeritus at Baylor University.