Igor Iwo Chabrowski is an associate professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. Igor’s research concentrates on the late Qing and modern Chinese history, history of Southeast Asia and Overseas Chinese, global history, and global communism. Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska is an assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw and an investigator in the ERC funded project The Diplomacy of Small States in Early Modern South-eastern Europe (HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest). She has a background in Early Modern history and Ottoman studies, with a specific focus on the Early Modern Crimean Khanate and the Northern Caucasus.

• Global Easts: Series Introduction - Jie-Hyun Lim Acknowledgements Introduction - Igor Iwo Chabrowski and Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska Part I. Archives, Communication, and Identities Dutch East India Company (VOC): Foundation, Administration, Territories, and Archives - Rafal Szmytka Jesuit Strategy of Communication and Its Mirror: The Order’s Roman Archives - Robert Danieluk Part II. Group Identities Polish-Lithuanian Jesuits Searching for a Missionary Field in the Orient, 1610-1723 - Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska Inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the VOC, 1620-1700 - Rafal Szmytka A Hungarian Employee of the VOC: The Adventures of András Jelky - Gábor Pusztai Jesuit Petitioners for the Indies from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Early Modern Period - Elisa Frei Part III. Experience of the Mission Jesuit Procurators, Traveling between China and Europe, and Dutch East India Employees during the Turbulent Period from the 1640s to the 1680s - Frederik Vermote A Jesuit among the Kalmyks: An Example of Proto-Ethnography by the Society of Jesus in the Eighteenth Century - Paul Shore A Great Longing for India vs. the Reality of the Jesuits from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: The Case of Paulus Kostanecki - Monika Miazek-Meczynska Authors Index