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Portraits in Chinese History
Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the le...
Dutch and Portuguese Envoys to K’ang-hsi, 1666–1687
This study shows how peculiar circumstances in the early Ch'ing led to the application of inherited routines of the tribute embassy to relations with ...
"A totally absorbing book...imaginative and erudite, full of startling juxtapositions and flashes of real perception."—Jonathan D. Spence John E. Wi...
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian mari...
Histories of Transoceanic Crossings
In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants ...