"Asia in the Making of Europe" is a must-read for history enthusiasts, scholars and anyone interested in the cultural exchange between Asia and Europe. The book provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the profound influence of Asian societies on Western culture during the sixteenth century. The author has meticulously sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in that century, providing a detailed survey of Asian life and society and its reflection in European literature and art. This monumental achievement provides a balanced perspective of world history while offering new insights into the complex dynamics of cultural exchange.

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Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history.Volume The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders' accounts and maps" ( The New York Review of Books ). Volume A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

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