Benjamin Elman, Ph.D. (1980), Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University, has published numerous studies, including, Classicism, Examinations, and Cultural History (2010), A Cultural Hisetory of Modern Science in China (2009) and Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (5th edition, 2016).Chao-Hui Jenny Liu, Ph.D. (2006), Lecturer of Chinese Studies and Coordinator of the East Asian Program at Princeton University, has worked at The Met, Smithsonian, and New York University and published studies on rituals, figurines, murals, art, and tombs in the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE).

• List of ContributersIntroduction: An Overview, by Benjamin A. ElmanPart 1 Is World History Possible?1 Is There Still Value in National History in the Trend towards Global History?, by Zhaoguang Ge2 Is a World History of Ideas Possible?, by Federico MarconPart 2 What Forms of Globalization Took Shape in Traditional East Asia?3 Conditional Universality and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia, by Nakajima Takahiro4 A New Global History and Regional Histories, by Masashi Haneda5 A Jointly Regional-Global Approach to Rethinking Early Modern East Asian History, by Benjamin A. ElmanPart 3 How Did Internationalism Emerge in Modern Chinese and Japanese Higher Education?6 Internationalization from Within: 140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo. By Jin Satō7 Global History in China: Inheritance and Innovation—A Case Study of the Development of World History in the History Department of Fudan University, by Yunshen GuPart 4 Doing ‘World’ or ‘Global’ History as ‘Transnational’ History8 From ‘East Asia’ to ‘East Asian Maritime Worlds’: The Pros and Cons of the Construction of a Historical World, by Shaoxin Dong9 From Sri Lanka to East Asia: A Short History of a Buddhist Scripture, by Norihisa Baba10 ‘Nobody Changed Their Old Customs’—Tang Views on the History of the World, by Tineke D’Haeseleer11 The Korean Response to Xue Xuan’s Enshrinement in the Ming Confucian Temples, by Xinlei Wang12 Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century World, by Yasushi Ōki13 Tales of an Open World: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty as Dutch Tragedy, Chinese Rumor, and Global News, by Paize Keulemans14 The Regulation of Sailors in the Maritime Trade between Jiangnan and Nagasaki in Early Qing China, by Zhenzhong Wang15 The Transnational History of Japanese Thrift, by Sheldon GaronCoda, by Benjamin A. ElmanIndex