Early Modern China and Northeast Asia - Cross-Border Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor Evelyn S. Rawski is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She received a PhD in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University, Massachusetts in 1968. A Guggenheim Fellow in 1990, she served as president of the Association for Asian Studies from 1995–6. She is the author of Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China (1972), Education and Popular Literacy in Ch'ing China (1979), and The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions (1998). Klappentext Evelyn Rawski presents a revisionist history of early modern China in the context of northeast Asian geopolitics and global maritime trade. Zusammenfassung Early Modern China and Northeast Asia offers a revisionist history of China from a peripheral perspective. It surveys wars and regime changes that accompanied China's integration into the world economy during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries! and places Sino-Korean and Sino-Japanese relations within the context of northeast Asian geopolitics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Note on transcription and other conventions; Introduction; Part I. China in Regional and World History: 1. The northeast frontier in Chinese history; 2. Transformations in early modern northeast Asia; Part II. Cultural Negotiations: 3. Unity and diversity in state rituals; 4. Kinship and succession in China, Japan and Korea; 5. Identity issues: the civilized/barbarian discourse; Conclusion; Epilogue: drawing boundaries in northeast Asia; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Evelyn Rawski, Evelyn S Rawski, Evelyn S. Rawski, Evelyn S. (University of Pittsburgh) Rawski, Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, Professor Evelyn Sakakida Rawski
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2015
• EAN: 9781107471528
• ISBN: 978-1-107-47152-8
• No. of pages: 349
• Series: Asian Connections; Asian Connections
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, China, Korea, HISTORY / Asia / General, General & world history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700