Root and branch: the place of the Portuguese Jesuits in the early modern China missions / Liam Matthew Brockey -- Tomás Pereira and the Jesuits of the court of the Kangxi Emperor / Paul Rule -- Father Tomás Pereira, SJ, the Kangxi Emperor and the Court Westerners / Ku Weiying -- The image of Tomás Pereira in Qing Dynasty documents / Zhang Xianqing -- From the earthly court to the heavenly court: the death and funeral of Tomás Pereira / Claudia von Collani -- The last imperial honours: from Tomás Pereira to the Eulogium Europeorum Doctorum in 1711 / António Vasconcelos de Saldanha -- 'Amicíssimos', Tomás Pereira and Zhao Chang / Jin Guoping -- The Fô and the Xekiâ: Tomás Pereira's critical description of Chinese Buddhism / Rui Magone -- Ubi dux, ibi curia: Kangxi's imperial hunts and the Jesuits as courtiers / Eugenio Menegon -- 'Riding a crane she ascended to the distant realms': the last memorial (27 January 1688) of Ferdinand Verbiest / Ad Dudink -- The 'Edict of Tolerance': a textual history and reading / Nicolas Standaert -- Tomás Pereira's appeal to the Portuguese Jesuits and missionary recruitment to China / Tereza Sena -- Ferdinand Verbiest's letter of 1678 to King Afonso VI of Portugal and the possible role of Tomás Pereira in its conception / Noël Golvers -- Defending European astronomy in China...against Europe: Tomás Pereira and the Directorate of Astronomy in 1688 / Antonella Romano -- Resolution of some questions about Tomás Pereira's arrival in Beijing and service at the Directorate of Astronomy / Shi Yumin -- Seventeenth-century Jesuit surveys for a secure overland route from Europe to China / Francisco Roque de Oliveira -- The Jesuits at Nerchinsk: language, war, and ethnicity / Peter Perdue -- Tomás Pereira at the Nerchinsk conference / Vladimir Stepanovich Myasnikov -- Tomás Pereira, Jing Tian and Nerchinsk: evolving world-view during the Kangxi period / João de Deus Ramos -- Mission by music: the challenge of translating European music into Chinese in the Lülü Zuanyao / Gerlinde Gild -- The organist and organ builder Tomás Pereira: some new data on his activity / João Paulo Janeiro.

Jesuits in the eastern world as ‘forerunners of globalization’ / Carlota Miranda Urbano -- Alessandro Valignano: man, missionary, and writer / M. Antoni J. Üçerler 余安道 -- With a view towards Japan: Alessandro Valignano and the opening of the college in Macau / John Witek 魏若望 (1933-2010) -- The Japanese in the College of Macau (1595-1614) / João Paulo Oliveira e Costa -- Alessandro Valignano 范禮安 Fan Li-an (1539-1606): strategist of the Jesuit mission in China / Edward J. Malatesta 馬愛德 (1932-1998) -- Chronology of Alessandro Valignano / Marisa Di Russo.