Gernet, J. (1985) China and the Christian Impact, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (A reconstructed conversation between the Jesuits and Chinese intellectuals on their first encounters in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.)

Hall, D.L and Ames, R.T. (1995) Anticipating China: Thinking Through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (A comparative study of the uncommon assumptions that ground the Chinese and Western philosophical traditions.)

Hall, D.L and Ames, R.T. (1997) Thinking From the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in China and the West, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (An examination of several fundamental themes that distinguish the Chinese cultural narrative from the Western philosophical tradition.)

Mungello, D.E. (1985) Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press. (A discussion of the inquiry of the seventeenth-century European intellectuals into Sinitic culture.)