Qiong Zhang, Ph. D. (1996, Harvard) teaches at Wake Forest University. Her research intersects with late imperial Chinese intellectual and cultural history and the history of the Jesuit mission in China. She has published many articles in these areas.

"The title of this fine study of the relationship between Jesuit missionaries and Chinese scholars shows that the author is determined to explore the Chinese side of that relationship far more than other recent studies of the Jesuits in China. Rather than a Eurocentric view of a “New World,” which focusses on the Americas, Zhang relates how encounters with Europeans and, more important, encounters with Jesuits enabled late Ming- and early Qing-dynasty China to adopt a new picture of the world." – Sheila J. Rabin, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies 3/3 (2016), pp. 518-519 [Full review]

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1 Introduction: Globalization, Localization, and Cultural Resilience2 Mapping a Contact Zone3 Divergent Discourses on the Physical Earth in Premodern China4 The Introduction and Refashioning of the Terraqueous Globe5 Translating the Four Seas across Space and Time 6 Taking in a New World 7 Conclusion: Jesuit Science and the Shape of Early Chinese ModernityBibliographyIndex