China on the Sea : How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China.

This volume challenges the "Walled Kingdom" perspective. China reached out to the seas far more actively than historians have allowed, while the maritime world shaped China, Qing China in particular, much more than the continental world. It gave birth to and defined Chinese modernity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yangwen, Zheng
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : BRILL, 2011.
Colección:China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 21.
Temas:
1644-1912
Merchant marine > China > History.
Marine marchande > Chine > Histoire.
TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / Pictorial.
Commerce
International economic relations
Merchant marine
Qing Dynasty (China)
Seeschifffahrt
Außenhandel
Handelsflotte
China > Commerce > Foreign countries.
China > Foreign economic relations.
China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Chine > Histoire > 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing)
China
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Diagrams, Tables and Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter One Facing the Seas; Chapter Two "The Inconsistency of the Seas"; Chapter Three Feeding China; Chapter Four Cette Merveilleuse Machine; Chapter Five Les Palais Européens; Chapter Six "Wind of the West"; Chapter Seven Pattern and Variation: Indigenisation; Chapter Eight "Race for Oriental Opulence"; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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