Asia in the making of Europe / Donald F. Lach. Vol. 3 co-authored by Edwin J. Van Kley.
Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents: Volume I: The century of discovery (in 2 volumes) [up to 1600] -- Volume II: A century of wonder [XVIth century]; Book 1. The visual arts. Book 2. The literary arts. Book 3. The scholarly disciplines -- Volume III: A century of advance [up to 1700]; Book 1. Trade, missions, literature. Book 2. South Asia. Book 3. Southeast Asia. Book 4. East Asia.

***Graphic resource: " ... Many of the earlier accounts of China are beautifully illustrated as well as extensively introduced in Donald F. Lach's voluminous series ..." --Cf. Wilkinson, Chinese history, a manual, p. 766.

Local access dig.pdf. [Folder: Asia in the Making of Europe]

Vol. 1, pts. 1-2 and vol. 2, pt.1 also in stacks.

Link to ACLS Humanities e-book via BC Libraries

First globalization : the Eurasian exchange, 1500 to 1800 / Geoffrey C. Gunn.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-323) and index.

The discovery canon -- Historical confabulators and literary geographers -- Observations on nature -- Catholic cosmologies -- Mapping Eurasia -- Enlightenment views of Asian Governance -- Civilizational encounters -- Livelihoods.

"First Globalization presents an original and sweeping conceptualization of the grand cultural-civilizational encounter between Asia and Europe. With his metageography of the vast Eurasian zone, Gunn shows how between 1500 and 1800, a lively two-way flow in ideas, philosophies, and cultural products brought competing civilizations into serious dialogue and mostly peaceful exchange. Ranging from discussions of the natural world, livelihoods, and religious and intellectual encounters to language, play, crime and punishment, gender, and governance, this book replays the themes of enduring hybridity and creolization of cultures."--OCLC note.

See detailed Table of contents.

Tangible whispers, neglected encounters : histories of East-West artistic dialogues, 14th-20th century / Marco Musillo.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-266).

The relationship between East and West remains a topic of burning timeliness, particularly in its political dimension. Yet, we can gain a complete understanding of the current tensions only if we consider them within a broader historical framework, spanning from art to diplomacy, from religion to ethnography. The present volume tackles precisely this complex task, offering its reader a rich mosaic of case studies and scholarly research, relating to the mutual approaches between the Euro-American ‘West’, and the Sino-Japanese ‘East’. In the first part of the book, art historian Marco Musillo uses the depictions of Tartars in fourteenth-century Italian frescoes as the starting point of a trajectory leading to eighteenth-century European literature on China. In the second part, the reader is introduced to two cases of diplomatic encounter, one in sixteenth-century Italy between Japanese subjects and local courts, and the other one between Qing China and twentieth-century United States, in the space of the universal exhibition in St. Louis. Finally, the last section proposes three interconnected art historical explorations: the screen design of Chinese origin in colonial Mexico, Medieval Christian tombstones in China, and early-modern Filipino sacred sculpture.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Hot Air and Flying Dragons: Historiographical Fractures and Interpretation

Part I: Ethnography
1. From Tartar Faces to Chinese Bodies: the Transformation of Identities

Part II: Diplomacy
2. Dancing Venues and Theatrical Receptions: Early Modern Diplomacy and the Japanese Legation to Europe
3. American Entertainment and Display: Qing Empress Cixi in the St. Louis Exposition

Part III: Materiality
4. The Routes of the Screen: Local Forms and Transcultural Designs
5. Tombstones and “Anomalous” Canons
6. Filipino Sculptures as Eventful Art

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The Mongol archive in late medieval France : texts, objects, encounters, 1221-1442 / Mark Cruse

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-326) and index.

Preface. Artifacts of our global past -- Introduction. The Mongol archive in late medieval France -- The origins of the Mongol archive in late medieval France -- Louis IX, the Mongols, and international court culture -- Eurasian France: the Cumans, the Valois, and Marco Polo -- The Mongol archive and the library of King Charles V -- The Mongol archive during the reign of King Charles VI -- Conclusion. The afterlives of the Mongol archive -- Appendix A. France and the Mongols: textual references, diplomatic contacts, and select objects, 1221-1422 -- Appendix B. Objects and the Mongol archive in late medieval France.

"Focusing on the late Middle Ages (1221-1422), this book examines various forms of contact between France and the Mongols; the ways in which authors, illuminators, manuscript makers, and patrons understood and imagined the Mongols; and France's place in the Global Middle Ages"-- Provided by publisher.