Muslim Merchants of Premodern China - The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750-1400

Informationen zum Autor John W. Chaffee is Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of History and Asian and Asian American Studies at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He also directs the Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas. He co-edited with Professor Denis Twitchett Volume 5 of The Cambridge History of China: Sung China, 960–1279, Part 2 (Cambridge, 2015). Klappentext An ambitious but accessible look at the Muslim merchants of pre-modern China and the flourishing trade links of medieval maritime Asia. Zusammenfassung An engaging new history of the Muslim merchants who settled in China's port cities from the eighth to fourteenth centuries. As a far-flung trade diaspora bound by a common faith! they contributed greatly to the maritime trade that flourished across maritime Asia and which helped to shape the pre-modern world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Merchants of an imperial trade; 2. The reorientation of trade; 3. The maturation of merchant communities; 4. Mongols and the concentration of merchant power; 5. Endings and continuities.

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• Authors: John W Chaffee, John W. Chaffee, John W. (Binghamton University Chaffee, Chaffee John W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781107012684
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01268-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: New Approaches to Asian Histor; New Approaches to Asian Histor; New Approaches to Asian History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Asia / General, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Middle Eastern history, Asian History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500