Recently added articles from Journal of World History:
Truthfulness at dawn, truthfulness at night: reflections on a common striving in Chinese and Jewish traditions.(Essay)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Confucius said: "If one learns the truth in the morning, one would never regret dying the same evening." -Analects 4:8 Truth is stumbling in the streets, what is right finds no entrance, truth absents itself while one who flees evil looks ridiculous. ...
Horrid Journeying: Narratives of enslavement and the global African diaspora.(Critical essay)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Here I was a perfect stranger; having left the Eyo country far behind. --Samuel Crowther, 1837 (1) Make human nature thy study, wherever thou residest--whatever the religion, or the complexion, study their hearts.--Ignatius Sancho, 1778 (2) For more than three ...
The intricacies of accommodation: the proselytizing strategy of Matteo Ricci.(Essay)
Dec 01, 2008; ... In the early modern intellectual interaction of Asia and Europe, no figure loomed larger or more illustrious than that of Matteo Ricci, a native son of Macerata, Italy, and a missionary from the Society of Jesus. Ricci was not the first European to set foot in China nor even the first foot ...
Beyond East and West: antiquarianism, evidential learning, and global trends in historical study.(Essay)
Dec 01, 2008; ... IN 1917, Hu Shi (1891-1962), a Chinese doctoral student working with John Dewey at Columbia University, began his dissertation with the following statement: "That philosophy is conditioned by its method, and that the development of philosophy is dependent upon the development of the ...
The Naashbandiyya-Khalidiyya, Islamic sainthood, and religion in modern times.(Essay)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Islam has been reborn ... because of people's conviction that Islam can provide a valid spiritual foundation to their lives. Such a foundation seems to have eluded ... Europe, despite its enduring political and economic power. --Pope Benedict XVI, "The Spiritual Roots of Europe: ...