Voyages, Migration, and the Maritime World : : On China’s Global Historical Role /

Voyages, Migration, and the Maritime World : : On China’s Global Historical Role / / ed. by Clara Ho, Ricardo Mak, Yue-him Tam.

This is a multi-author volume resulted from an international conference focusing on topics related to our understanding of the role of China in the global history. Apart from introductory chapters exploring methodological issues and providing big pictures of framing China in the world in particular...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Brunero, Donna,
Chan, Catherine S.,
Chen, Kuo-tung,
Hansen, Valerie,
Lei, Chinhau,
Li, Kin Sum,
Masashi, Haneda,
Peterson, Glen,
Po, Ronald C.,
Thai, Philip,
Xiaorong, Han,
Yung, Ying-yue,
HerausgeberIn:
Ho, Clara,
Mak, Ricardo,
Tam, Yue-him,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (261 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Editors and Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Perspectives on the World
  • 1. World/Global History and the Positionality of Historians
  • 2. The World in the Year 1000: The View from Beijing
  • Part II: China’s Maritime World: From Ancient to Modern Times
  • 3. The Emergence of Organized Water Transport in Early China: Its Social and Geographical Contexts
  • 4. Cultural Interactions throughout the Ancient South China Sea
  • 5. The Role of Vietnam in China’s Foreign Relations
  • 6. Advantages of Chinese Navigators during the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
  • 7. The Pearl by the Bohai Sea: Qinhuangdao in the Early Modern Period
  • 8. Smuggling and Legal Pluralism on the China Coast: The Rise and Demise of the Joint Investigation Rules, 1864–1934
  • 9. Beyond Tariffs and Duties: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service and its Representations of China’s Maritime World c.1912–49
  • Part III: Migrations and the Travel of Ideas
  • 10. International Law and China’s Entry into the ‘Family of Nations’: The Question of Forced Migration and Refugees
  • 11. At the Edge of Two Worlds: Rethinking the Portuguese Diaspora in British Hong Kong
  • 12. The Global Migration of a Chinese Family: Kwan Yuen-cheung and His Descendants

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