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John E. Wills, Jr. (b. 1936 d. 2017) was an American historian of East Asian and world history. He was a professor of history at University of Southern California from 1965 to his retirement in 2004. " His core research has been on China’s relations with maritime Europeans from about 1500 to 1800 and long views of continuity and change in China’s culture and its foreign relations.

In 2017, Tonio Andrade and Kenneth Swope published a festschrift in honor of Wills, Early Modern East Asia: War, Commerce, And Cultural Exchange: Essays In Honor Of John E. Wills, Jr.

Education and career
B.A. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where his father was a professor of, then served in the United States Army. While in the army he

Books

 * Pepper, Guns, and Parleys: The Dutch East India Company and China, 1662-1681. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1974.


 * Embassies and Illusions: Dutch and Portuguese Envoys to Kʻang-Hsi, 1666-1687. Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1984.


 * Spence, Jonathan D., and John E. Wills, Jr., eds. From Ming to Chʻing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-Century China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.


 * Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994; second edition 2012.


 * 1688: A Global History. New York; London: Norton, 2002.


 * The World from 1450 to 1700. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.


 * Past and Present in China's Foreign Policy: From "Tribute System" to "Peaceful Rise". Portland, Me.: MerwinAsia, 2011.


 * China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800: Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.