Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds - Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia

Informationen zum Autor Hyunhee Park is an Assistant Professor of History at CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, where she teaches Chinese history, global history, and justice in the non-Western tradition. She currently serves as an Assistant Editor of the academic journal Crossroads: Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World. Klappentext This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived. Zusammenfassung Hyunhee Park's book documents the relationship between the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived. Through close analysis! Park explores varied interactions between these two regions. This rich! engaging study offers glimpses into the worlds of Asian geographers and mapmakers! whose accumulated wisdom underpinned the celebrated voyages of European explorers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. From imperial encounter to maritime trade: Chinese understanding of the Islamic world, 750-1260; 2. The representation of China and the world: Islamic knowledge about China, 750-1260; 3. Interpreting the Mongol world: Chinese understanding of the Islamic world, 1260-1368; 4. Beyond Marco Polo: Islamic knowledge about China, 1260-1368; 5. Legacy from half the globe before 1492: Chinese understanding of the Islamic world and Islamic knowledge about China, 1368-1500; Conclusion: lessons from pre-modern Sino-Islamic contact.

Product details

• Authors: Hyunhee Park, Hyunhee (City University of New York) Park, Park Hyunhee
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107018686
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01868-6
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Islam, China, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Historical Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography, HISTORY / Asia / China, General & world history, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, Asian History, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Islamic countries, Cartography, map-making and projections, Historical maps and atlases, Historical Geography, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Islamic