Dominic Sachsenmaier is Chair Professor of Modern China with a Special Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen. He is the author of Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World (2011) and an editor of the Columbia University Press series Columbia Studies in International and Global History.

Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled is a mature work by a scholar who has reflected not only on the history of Christianity in China but also on the problem of cultural interactions in the early modern era. Sachsenmaier offers a significant departure from the tradition of Christian studies in China even while dealing with the question of Christianity as a faith. He explores the historical problem of self-formation and trans-formation—both individual and collective—and the organizational machinery of the Catholic Church during a period of momentous global encounters.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Situating Zhu Zongyuan1. A Local Life and Its Global Contexts2. A Globalizing Organization and Chinese Christian Life3. A Teaching Shaped by Constraints4. Foreign Learnings and Confucian Ways5. European Origins on TrialEpilogueGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

Dominic Sachsenmaier is Chair Professor of Modern China with a Special Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen. He is the author of Global Perspectives on Global History: Theories and Approaches in a Connected World (2011) and an editor of the Columbia University Press series Columbia Studies in International and Global History.

Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled is a mature work by a scholar who has reflected not only on the history of Christianity in China but also on the problem of cultural interactions in the early modern era. Sachsenmaier offers a significant departure from the tradition of Christian studies in China even while dealing with the question of Christianity as a faith. He explores the historical problem of self-formation and trans-formation—both individual and collective—and the organizational machinery of the Catholic Church during a period of momentous global encounters.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Situating Zhu Zongyuan1. A Local Life and Its Global Contexts2. A Globalizing Organization and Chinese Christian Life3. A Teaching Shaped by Constraints4. Foreign Learnings and Confucian Ways5. European Origins on TrialEpilogueGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex