The Chinese adventures of an Italian globe-trotter: Gemelli Careri and his Giro del Mondo (1699-1700) / Rui Manuel Loureiro -- Representations of China in âAlvaro Semedo's work / Isabel Pina -- Rodrigues the gift-giver: a Korean envoy's portrayal of his encounter with a Jesuit in 1631 / Lim Jongtae -- A sixteenth-century Jesuit map of China: Sinarum Regni aliorumque Regnorum et insularum illi adiacentum descriptio / Hsu Kuang-Tai -- On two maps of Vietnam by Alexandre de Rhodes / Alexei Volkov -- Visual representations of Japan in early Portuguese maps: the case of the [Moreira]-Teixeira map [Ortelius 1595] / Ekaterina Simonova-Gudzenko -- The first map of China printed in Europe [Ortelius 1584] reconsidered: confusions about its authorship and the influence of Chinese cartography / Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann -- Asian eyes in Portuguese maps: hybrid cartographic representations of China in the early modern age / Francisco Roque De Oliveira -- Exchanging artistic practices and textual narratives: the Jesuit Painting Seminary in Japan (late 16th-early 17th centuries) / Alexandra Curvelo -- Jesuits, cosmology and creation in Japan's "Christian Century" (1549-1650) / Ryuji Hiraoka -- The printed life of the Huangyu quanlan tu / Mario Cams -- Western learning and imperial knowledge of the world during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722) / Catherine Jami -- Giacomo Filippo Simonelli (1680-1754/5) and the Scientia eclipsium, ex imperio, et commercio Sinarum illustrata / Uga Baldini -- Father Antoine Gaubil, S.J. (1689-1759), and his election to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences / Dimitri Bayuk -- A mirror to the calendar: cut, paste and spread the European calendrical learning / Chu Pingyi.