Contents -- Introduction: Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China - Peter N. Miller and François Louis -- Part 1: Antiquarianism and the Study of the Past -- One: Writing Antiquarianism: Prolegomenon to a History - Peter N. Miller -- Two: The Many Dimensions of the Antiquary's Practice - Alain Schnapp -- Three: Far and Away? Japan, China, and Egypt, and the Ruins of Ancient Rome in Justus Lipsius's Intellectual Journey - Jan Papy -- Four: Comparing Antiquarianisms: A View from Europe - Peter N. Miller -- Part 2: Authenticity and Antiquities -- Five: The Credulity Problem - Christopher S. Wood -- Six: Artifacts of Authentication: People Making Texts Making Things in Ming-Qing China - Bruce Rusk -- Part 3: The Discovery of the World -- Seven: Styles of Medical Antiquarianism - Nancy G. Siraisi -- Eight: Therapy and Antiquity in Late Imperial China - Nathan Sivin -- Nine: Wang Shizhen and Li Shizhen: Archaism and Early Scientific Thought in Sixteenth-Century China - Kenneth J. Hammond -- Ten: The Botany of Cheng Yaotian (1725-1814): Multiple Perspectives on Plants - Georges Métailié -- Part 4: Antiquarianism and Ethnography -- Eleven: The Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe: Obstacles and Missed Opportunities - Noel Malcolm -- Twelve: Thinking About "Non-Chinese" in Ming China - Leo K. Shin -- Part 5: Antiquarianism and a "History of Religion" -- Thirteen: From Antiquarianism to Philosophical History: India, China, and the World History of Religion in European Thought (1600-1770) - Joan-Pau Rubiés -- Fourteen: Whose Antiquarianism? Europe versus China in the 1701 Conflict between Bishop Maigrot and Qiu Sheng - D. E. Mungello -- Fifteen: From Antiquarian Imagination to the Reconstruction of Institutions: Antonius van Dale on Religion - Martin Mulsow -- List of Contributors -- Index.