China on the sea

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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.

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Title Statements

Full title :China on the sea / by Zheng Yangwen.

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Publication Date:©2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 362 pages)

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ISBN:9789004194786, 9004194789, 9004194770, 9789004194779
oclc:ocn769188465
LC Classification:HF3834
Dewey Decimal:387.50951/0903

Facing the seas -- "The inconsistency of the seas" -- Feeding China -- Cette merveilleuse machine -- Les palais europeens -- "Wind of the west" -- Pattern and variation: indigenisation -- "Race for oriental opulence" -- Conclusion.

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1644 - 1912 China China -- Commerce -- Foreign countries China -- Foreign economic relations China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-… Chine -- Histoire -- 1644-1912 (Dynasti… Commerce History International economic relations Marine marchande -- Histoire. -- Chine Merchant marine Merchant marine -- History. -- China Qing Dynasty (China) TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding