The Qing Opening to the Ocean - Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684-1757

Informationen zum Autor Gang Zhao is associate professor of history at the University of Akron. Klappentext Some scholars insist that China contributed nothing to the rise of the global economy that began around 1500. Others have placed China at the centre of global integration. Neither side, though, has paid attention to the complex story of China's maritime policies. Drawing on sources from China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and the West, this systematically explores the evolution of imperial Qing maritime policy from 1684 to 1757 and sets its findings in the context of early globalisation. Zusammenfassung This is an important revisionist work! part of a trend that first arose in the early 1990s that sought to reexamine Chinas historical place in the world and global economy. It tells a new story about the interrelationship between late imperial China and

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• Authors: Gang Zhao
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2013
• EAN: 9780824836436
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3643-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Perspectives on the Global Pas; Perspectives on the Global Pas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches