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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Yangwen, Zheng
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2011.
Series:China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 21.
Subjects:
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
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