Embassies and Illusions: Dutch and Portuguese Envoys to K'ang-hsi, 1666-1687, by John E. Wills
FAIN: RP-20535-84
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
Howard S. Hibbett (Project Director: November 1983 to October 1990)
To support publication of a work that examines the tributary system developed under the Ming Dynasty to deal with embassies from European maritime countries and traces two Dutch and two Portuguese embassies in detail.