I. Portugal and the Jesuit missions in Asia. Portugal and the Jesuit mission to China: trends in historiography / Rui Magone. Evangelization, politics, and technology transfer in 17th-century Cochinchina: the case of Joao da Cruz / Alexei Volkov -- II. The Jesuits and the knowledge of China in Europe. The Jesuits and their study of Chinese astronomy and chronology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Han Qi. The Jesuit Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot and Chinese music in the eighteenth century / Nii Yoko -- III. Tomas Pereira (1646-1708). Some data on Tomas Pereira's (Xu Risheng) biography and manuscripts / Isabel Pina. Pereira's trip to Tartary in 1685 / Davor Antonucci. Thomas Pereira and the knowledge of Western music in the 17th and 18th centuries in China / Wang Bing and Manuel Serrano Pinto. Pereira's musical heritage as context for his contributions in China / Joyce Lindorff -- IV. New sources on Western science at the Chinese Emperor's Court. Verbiest's manuscripts on astronomy and mechanics (1676): from Beijing to Moscow and Constantinople / Noel Golvers and Efthymios Nicolaidis. Manchu manuscripts on mathematics in the Toyo Bunko, the State Library of Inner Mongolia and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France / Junsei Watanabe. The new thermometer and a slice of experimental philosophy in the early Qing court / Shi Yunli -- V. Missionaries in Beijing during the reigns of Kangxi and Yongzheng. Karel Slavicek and his scientific works in China / Liu Dun. Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714): chronologist, linguist, and "casual" scientist / Ugo Baldini. "Western astronomy vs. Korean geography": intellectual exchanges between a Korean and the Jesuits as seen from Yi Kiji's 1720 Beijing Travelogue / Lim Jongtae.