500 years across the Indian Ocean and South China Sea -- Global Beijing under the Great Ming -- Picturing China in Persian along the silk routes -- Trading with China in Malay along the spice routes -- Europe's search for the Spice Islands -- A Sino-Jesuit tradition of science and mapmaking --...

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1. Verfasser:	Akhtar, Ali Humayun (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Stanford, California Stanford University Press [2022]
Schlagworte:	Internationale Politik Welthandel Mingdynastie Qingdynastie China China / History / Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 China / History / Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 China / Commerce / History China / Foreign relations
Zusammenfassung:	500 years across the Indian Ocean and South China Sea -- Global Beijing under the Great Ming -- Picturing China in Persian along the silk routes -- Trading with China in Malay along the spice routes -- Europe's search for the Spice Islands -- A Sino-Jesuit tradition of science and mapmaking -- Porcelain across the Dutch Empire -- Tea across the British Empire -- China's eclipse and Japan's modernization -- Epilogue : a new turn to the East "With the goal of understanding China's future in a changing international landscape, this book offers a new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. In 1368, Ali Humayun Akhtar maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of European mariners and the shock of the Opium Wars. In Akhtar's new picture of world history, China's current rise evokes an earlier epoch, one that sheds light on where Beijing is heading today. Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe palaces of silk and jade in Beijing's Forbidden City. Malay legends recount stories of Chinese princesses in Melaka with gifts of porcelain and gold. During Europe's Age of Exploration, Iberian mariners charted new passages to China that the Dutch and British East India Companies transformed into lucrative tea routes. Among the ships' passengers were Italian Jesuits, whose linguistic skills facilitated book projects with local mapmakers and botanists published in Amsterdam. But there was a shift during the British Industrial Revolution, one that pointed to Europe's high-tech future. Across the British Empire, the rise of steam engines and factories allowed the export of the very commodities once imported from China. By the end of the Opium Wars and the arrival of Commodore Perry in Japan, Chinese and Japanese reformers called for their own industrial revolutions, one that would accelerate in the twentieth century.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xii, 208 Seiten, 27 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781503627475