Yi jie shi biography of christopher columbus
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Journal of World History
Haiwei Liu (劉海威) is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Humanities at ShanghaiTech University. His research interests include the history of middle period and late imperial China, the Mongol conquest in world history, and the history of Islam in China.
Footnotes
* I am grateful to Bettine Birge, Lina Nie, Yitian Li, Yung-chang Tung, Yuan-Heng Mao, and Penghao Sun for their valuable suggestions on this article. I also thank the reviewers of JWH for their incisive comments, which are very helpful for revising this article.
1. John of Plano Carpini, History of the Mongols, in Mission to Asia, ed. Christopher Dawson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980), 3–79; Peter Jackson, The Mongols and the West, 1221–1410 (New York: Routledge, 2014), 87–95.
2. William of Rubruck, The Journey of William of Rubruck, in Mission to Asian, 89–223. The Mongols and the West, 99–103.
3.Mission to Asia, xviii–xxi.
4. For the family background of Marco Polo, see John Larner, Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 31–46.
5. Marco Polo, The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, trans. and ed. Henry Yule, vol. 1 (London
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Imagining China: the View from Europe, 1500–1700
Imagining China: the View from Europe, 1500–1700, one of the Exhibitions at the Folger, opened September 18, 2009 and closed on January 9, 2010. The exhibition was curated by Timothy Billings.
Contents of the exhibition
Europeans in China
Marco Polo (1254–1324) was one of the earliest Europeans to visit China—though he was not the first (Friars John of Plano Carpini and William of Rubruck both reached China in the middle of the thirteenth century). It was Polo’s account, however, that fired the imagination of Europe for centuries, launching thousands of merchants toward the riches of Cathay. Even Christopher Columbus took a copy of Polo’s account, along with letters to the King of Cathay, on his voyage of 1492. The translation and continual reprinting of Polo’s manuscript carried its influence well into the seventeenth century, and contributed to the later Jesuit interest in China.
In fact, the early modern missions of the Jesuits in China mark one of the most notable steps in early contact between China and the Western world. Jesuit missionaries who gained permission to establish a residence in Guangdong Province in the early 1580s immer
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Christopher Columbus
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Introduction
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