Introduction
Two tranquil worlds
Openness to the world
Because the world is round
A leap into the unknown?
Books and letters from the other end of the world
Embassy or conquest?
The clash of civilizations
Naming the other
A story of cannon
Opacity or transparency?
The greatest cities in the world
The hour of the crime
The place of the whites
To everyone their own post-war
The secrets of the south sea
China on the horizon
When china awakes
Conclusion - towards a global history of the renaissance.
The eagle and the dragon : globalization and European dreams of conquest in China and America in the sixteenth century by Serge Gruzinski. ISBN 9780745667126. Published by Polity Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.