China on the sea /

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: Zheng, Yangwen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012.
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)
China > Foreign economic relations.
China > Commerce > Foreign countries.
China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Chine > Histoire > 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing)
China
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Facing the seas
  • "The inconsistency of the seas"
  • Feeding China
  • Cette merveilleuse machine
  • Les palais europeens
  • "Wind of the west"
  • Pattern and variation: indigenisation
  • "Race for oriental opulence"
  • Conclusion.

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