孟德卫（David E. Mungello） 美国汉学家。出生于1943年，1973年获得加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校博士学位。现为贝勒大学（Baylor University）历史与亚洲研究教授。 另著有《莱布尼兹和儒学》（Leibniz and Confucianism: The Search for Accord）、《神奇的土地：耶稣会士的调适策略和汉学的起源》(Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology)、《被遗忘的杭州基督徒》（The Forgotten Christians of Hangzhou）、《灵肉之争中的山东（1650-1785）》（The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650–1785）等。

D.E. Mungello is professor of history and director of Asian Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

For too long, the history of contact between China and the West has been portrayed as a one-sided encounter: Europeans were said to have "discovered" China, while Chinese responses to the West went largely unnoticed. In this book, D.E. Mungello dispels the myth that China was a silent partner in the dialogue between Eastern and Western civilizations. Although they did not recip...(展开全部)

In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of poverty, backwardness, and totalitarianism and moving toward modernization. However, history shows that this vast country is not newly awakening, but rather returning to its previous state of world eminence. With this compel...(展开全部)

This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and Chinese approaches to historical study that have been called "antiquarian." As an exercise in historical recovery, the essays in this volume amass new information about the range of a...(展开全部)

In European Urbanization Jan de Vries provides a comprehensive data base for understanding the nature of the changes that took place in European cities from 1500 to 1800. The book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more inhabitants analysed at fifty-year intervals. Using a wide range of economic, demographic ...(展开全部)

In "European Urbanization" Jan de Vries provides a comprehensive data base for understanding the nature of the changes that took place in European cities from 1500 to 1800. The book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more inhabitants analysed at fifty-year intervals. Using a wide range of economic, demographi...(展开全部)

In European Urbanization Jan de Vries provides a comprehensive data base for understanding the nature of the changes that took place in European cities from 1500 to 1800. The book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more inhabitants analysed at fifty-year intervals. Using a wide range of economic, demographic ...(展开全部)

In European Urbanization Jan de Vries provides a comprehensive data base for understanding the nature of the changes that took place in European cities from 1500 to 1800. The book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more inhabitants analysed at fifty-year intervals. Using a wide range of economic, demographic ...(展开全部)