An Economist Best Book of 2018 New York Times Book Review Editor’s Pick “Gripping [and] splendid.… An enormous contribution to our understanding of Marsha

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

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

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 “

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