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020			_a9789004194786 _q(electronic book)
020			_z9789004194779 _q(print)
024	7		_a10.1163/9789004194786 _2DOI
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100	1		_aZheng, Yangwen.
245	1	0	_aChina on the sea / _cby Zheng Yangwen.
264		1	_aLeiden ; _aBoston : _bBrill.
264		4	_cc2012.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 362 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aChina studies ; _vv. 21
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tPreliminary Material / _rYangwen Zheng 鄭揚文 -- _tIntroduction / _rYangwen Zheng -- _tChapter One Facing the Seas / _rYangwen Zheng -- _tChapter Two “The Inconsistency of the Seas” / _rYangwen Zheng -- _tChapter Three Feeding China / _rYangwen Zheng -- _tChapter Four Cette Merveilleuse Machine / _rYangwen Zheng -- _tChapter Five Les Palais Européens / _rYangwen Zheng -- _tChapter Six “Wind of the West” [西洋风] / _rYangwen Zheng -- _tChapter Seven Pattern and Variation: Indigenisation / _rYangwen Zheng -- _tChapter Eight “Race for Oriental Opulence” / _rYangwen Zheng -- _tConclusion / _rYangwen Zheng -- _tBibliography / _rYangwen Zheng 鄭揚文 -- _tIndex / _rYangwen Zheng 鄭揚文.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aGenerations of Chinese scholars have made China synonymous with the Great Wall and presented its civilization as fundamentally land-bound. This volume challenges this perspective, demonstrating that China was not a “Walled Kingdom”, certainly not since the Yongjia Disturbance in 311. China reached out to the maritime world far more actively than historians have acknowledged, while the seas and what came from the seas—from Islam, fragrances and Jesuits to maize, opium and clocks—significantly changed the course of history, and have been of inestimable importance to China since the Ming. This book integrates the maritime history of China, especially the Qing period, a subject which has hitherto languished on the periphery of scholarly analysis, into the mainstream of current historical narrative. It was the seas that made Tang China a “Cosmopolitan Empire” (Mark Lewis), the Song dynasty China’s “Greatest Age” (John Fairbank), China at 1600 “the largest and most sophisticated of all unified realms on earth” (Jonathan Spence), and the reign of the three Qing emperors (Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong) China’s “last golden age” (Charles Hucker).
650		0	_aMerchant marine _zChina _xHistory.
650		7	_aTRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / Pictorial. _2bisacsh
651		0	_aChina _xForeign economic relations.
651		0	_aChina _xCommerce _zForeign countries.
651		0	_aChina _xHistory _yQing dynasty, 1644-1912.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tChina on the Sea: How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China _dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2012, _z9789004194779
830		0	_aChina Studies _v21.
830		0	_aAsian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223219.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004194786
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