An Economist Best Book of 2018 A spellbinding narrative of the high-stakes mission that changed the course of America, China, and global politics—and a rich p

An epic history of the clashes of cultures between Jesuit missionaries in China.

It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “

Biotechnology crop production area increased from 1.7 million hectares to 148 million hectares worldwide between 1996 to 2010. While genetically modified food i

This volume explores Scottish missions to China, focusing on the missionary-scholar and Protestant sinologist par excellence James Legge (1815–1897), to demon