The seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province, yet led a remarkably global life through scholarly activities and globalizing Catholicism. Dominic Sachsenmaier explores the mid-seventeenth-century world through the lens of Zhüs life, combining the local, regional, and global.

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.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Situating Zhu Zongyuan
1. A Local Life and Its Global Contexts
2. A Globalizing Organization and Chinese Christian Life
3. A Teaching Shaped by Constraints
4. Foreign Learnings and Confucian Ways
5. European Origins on Trial
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index