John W Witek
Biographic Data
| ID | 1063451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John W Witek |
| GIVEN NAMES | John W |
| FAMILY NAME | Witek |
| SIGNATURE | WITEK J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cambridge History of China
Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural prod…
Presenting the “Nestorian” Monument From the Late Seventeenth to the Early Eighteenth Century
Research on this topic led to some interesting, but at times inaccurate statements about Father Michal Piotr Boym, a Jesuit missionary in China whose writings became a link in the cultural relations of China and Europe during the seventeenth century and later. In the 1876 edition of Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Carl Gustav Adolph Siegfried wrote a biographical sketch of Boym in one sentence, mentioned Boym' s Flora Sinensis of 1656 and his wri…
China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800
China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the fullest and clearest available summaries, based on sou…
Liangtoushe. Mingmo Qingchu de diyidai Tianzhu jiaotu
Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640 . James C. Boyajian A World on the Move
The Seventeenth-Century European Advance into Asia—A Review Article
I n his perceptive essays entitled On History , Fernand Braudel declared that “there is no problem which does not become increasingly complex when actively investigated, growing in scope and depth, endlessly opening up new vistas of work to be done” (University of Chicago Press, 1980, p. 15). These observations are reflected in this masterful study of Donald Lach and Edwin Van Kley as they depict the intricacies of Asian civilization from India t…
Coming Out of the Middle Ages
Curious Land
Controversial Ideas in China and in Europe
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Controversial Ideas in China and in Europe
Curious Land
Coming Out of the Middle Ages
The Seventeenth-Century European Advance into Asia—A Review Article
I n his perceptive essays entitled On History , Fernand Braudel declared that “there is no problem which does not become increasingly complex when actively investigated, growing in scope and depth, endlessly opening up new vistas of work to be done” (University of Chicago Press, 1980, p. 15). These observations are reflected in this masterful study of Donald Lach and Edwin Van Kley as they depict the intricacies of Asian civilization from India t…
Portuguese Trade in Asia under the Habsburgs, 1580-1640 . James C. Boyajian A World on the Move
Liangtoushe. Mingmo Qingchu de diyidai Tianzhu jiaotu
China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800
China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the fullest and clearest available summaries, based on sou…
Presenting the “Nestorian” Monument From the Late Seventeenth to the Early Eighteenth Century
Research on this topic led to some interesting, but at times inaccurate statements about Father Michal Piotr Boym, a Jesuit missionary in China whose writings became a link in the cultural relations of China and Europe during the seventeenth century and later. In the 1876 edition of Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Carl Gustav Adolph Siegfried wrote a biographical sketch of Boym in one sentence, mentioned Boym' s Flora Sinensis of 1656 and his wri…
The Cambridge History of China
Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural prod…
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