Ungello D.E. The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800

Third Edition. — Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2009. — 167 p.The growing importance of China in today’s world has stimulated a great deal of new research on the historical relationship of China and
the West. The third edition of this book attempts to incorporate this new research into the second edition’s narrative of Sino-Western history, particularly in the areas of biographies, sexuality, gender, and the history of sensibilities.