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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

"Traces the interwoven changes that led from the world of Columbus, Luther, and the Mughal emperor Babur to the world of Locke, Louis XIV, and the Kangxi Emperor. Wills encourages his readers to acknowledge the special features of the European experience and achievement without presenting Europe as essentially the only source of the modern"--Provided by publisher

Preliminary Material /John E. Wills Jr. --Continuities and Routines /John E. Wills Jr. --Pieter van Hoorn 1666-1668 /John E. Wills Jr. --Manoel de Saldanha 1667-1670 /John E. Wills Jr. --Bento Pereira de Faria 1678 /John E. Wills Jr. --Vincent Paats 1685-1687 /John E. Wills Jr. --The Survival of Ch'ing Illusions /John E. Wills Jr. --Brief Account of the Journey Made to the Court of Peking by Lord Manoel de Saldanha, Ambassador Extraordinary of the King of Portugal to the Emperor of China and Tartary (1667-1670) /Father Francisco Pimentel S.J. --Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J., on the Embassy of Bento Pereira de Faria, 1678 /John E. Wills Jr. --Three Poems on the Lion Brought by the Portuguese, 1678 /John E. Wills Jr. --Gifts and Food Allotments from the Ch'ing Court /John E. Wills Jr. --Gifts Brought by the Embassies /John E. Wills Jr. --Notes /John E. Wills Jr. --Bibliography /John E. Wills Jr. --Glossary /John E. Wills Jr. --Index /John E. Wills Jr. --Harvard East Asian Monographs /John E. Wills Jr.

This article presents resources for thinking straight about the global history enterprise that have not been widely recognized or discussed by practitioners. Several important philosophers are discussed briefly; fuller attention is given to two. Hilary Putnam presents a nuanced account of human reason and flourishing that goes beyond the factvalue dichotomy that often bedevils our work. Daniel Dennett does much to clarify the nature of the evolutionary processes—natural, social, and cultural—we discuss and the elements of cultural interaction and learning, sometimes called "memes."

AbstractI began my graduate studies at Harvard in September 1958. In the summer and fall of 1959, I started groping for ways to think about China in the seventeenth century, discovered that there had been some very interesting European eyewitnesses of the Ming-Qing wars, and wrote my first seminar paper for John King Fairbank on the first Dutch embassy, 1655.1657. The rest, shall we say, is history.

AbstractThe papers in this special issue are the products of a conference, "History and China's Foreign Relations: The Achievements and Contradictions of American Scholarship, " held at the University of Southern California in February 2008. All of us, professors, policy advisors and policy-makers, think it would be helpful if there was more informed discussion among the general public of the challenges of China's rise in the world and our responses to it, but we all acknowledge that the American public sphere is a big mess, fragmented by the apparent riches of the Internet, dumbed down to the vanishing point in the major media. Can we as scholars make some beginnings in drawing on China's long and complex history of relations with other peoples to find generalizations and patterns that help to illuminate the present for the policy elite and for the concerned public?