Interracial Lovers in Revolutionary China

For the past half-century D. E. Mungello has been a leading scholar in Sino-Western history. From 1979 to 2016 he founded and edited a journal dedicated to the post-Mao Zedong era revival of contacts between Chinese and foreign historians. His books include Leibniz and Confucianism, Curious Land , The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800, The Spirit and the Flesh in Shandong, 1650-1785, Drowning Girls in China: Female Infanticide since 1650, Western Queers in China: Flight to the Land of Oz, The Catholic Invasion of China, and This Suffering is my Joy: The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China. He is the Professor of History Emeritus at Baylor University.

Although Westerners often depict Chinese in monolithic terms, this book shows that individuals from different cultures dealt with one another in many different ways. Mungello documents a wide range of relationships between Chinese and Westerners - romantic and pragmatic, real and imaginary, devoted and transitory, intense and flirtatious. The reader comes away with a sense of the variety of interactions that are possible between people of very different cultures.