China on the sea / by Zheng Yangwen.
Generations 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 o...
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| Superior document: | China studies ; v. 21 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 21. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.