1368: China and the making of the modern world

Five hundred years across the Indian Ocean and South China Sea

Global Beijing under the Great Ming

Picturing China in Persian along the silk routes

Trading with China in Malay along the spice routes

Europe's search for the Spice Islands

A Sino-Jesuit tradition of science and mapmaking

Porcelain across the Dutch Empire

Tea across the British Empire

China's eclipse and Japan's modernization

Epilogue : a new turn to the East.