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.

About the author

Zheng Yangwen is Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The Social Life of Opium in China, which has been translated into Italian and Korean. She is also the editor of Negotiating Asymmetry: China's Place in Asia (with Anthony Reid); The Body in Asia (with Bryan S. Turner); Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity (with Charles J-H Macdonald); The Cold War in Asia: the Battle for Hearts and Minds (with Hong Liu and Michael Szonyi); and The Chinese Chameleon Revisited: from the Jesuits to Zhang Yimou.

Product details

• Authors: Zheng Yangwen
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2011
• EAN: 9789004281608
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28160-8
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: China Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918