China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 :
Wills, Jr, John E.,
China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 : Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions / China & Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 John E. Wills, Jr ; with contributions by John Cranmer-Byng, Willard J. Peterson, Jr, John W. Witek. - 1 online resource (312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
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.
9780511973604 (ebook)
D34.C6 / C465 2011
303.48/251040903
China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 : Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions / China & Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 John E. Wills, Jr ; with contributions by John Cranmer-Byng, Willard J. Peterson, Jr, John W. Witek. - 1 online resource (312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
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.
9780511973604 (ebook)
D34.C6 / C465 2011
303.48/251040903