Tribute system and rulership in late imperial China / / edited by Ralph Kauz and Morris Rossabi.

• Superior document: Studien zu Macht und Herrschaft
• TeilnehmendeR: Rossabi, Morris,; Kauz, Ralph,
• Place / Publishing House: Gottingen : : V&R unipress,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studien zu Macht und Herrschaft.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (367 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Series Editors' Preface -- Ralph Kauz / Morris Rossabi: Introduction -- The Basics of Tribute -- Li Wen 李文: The Origin of the Character gòng -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Characters of the group 工 in oracle-bone inscriptions and the character -- 2.1 Rù 入 -- 2.2 Lái 來 -- 2.3 Xiàn 獻/ jiàn -- 2.4 Yǐ 以/ dǐ 氏 -- 2.5 Gōng 工 -- 3. The differentiation from 工 to -- 3.1 Relations between 工 and 功 -- 3.2 Relations between and 功 -- 3.3 Relations between 工 and : summary of the origins of the character -- 4. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- The System -- Liu Yingsheng 劉 勝: The Tribute System and the Dependent States of Mongol-Yuan China -- 1. Title and content of Annam's and Koryo's surrender -- 2. Requiring the six demands from Korea and Annam - time and origin -- 3. The Core Terms of the six demands and The Causes for Differences -- Bibliography -- He Xinhua 何新 : Political or Economic? A Systematical Investigation of the Forms of Goods Exchange under the Qing Tributary System -- 1. Tribute and reward exchange between the Qing court and the tributary states -- 1.1. Provisions for the occasion of offering tribute -- 1.2. Provisions for tribute items and amount -- 1.3. Reward regulations -- 1.4. Comments on the forms of tribute-reward communication in the Qing dynasty -- 2. Trade exchange between the Qing court and the Tributary states -- 2.1. Trade in the Huitong guan -- 2.2. Trade at ports of entry -- 2.3. Permanent border trade -- 2.4. The Sino-Siam rice trade -- 2.5. Comments on the trade exchange between the Qing court and Tributary states -- 3. The trade system between the Qing court and the non-tributary states -- 3.1. The Canton system -- 3.2. The Kyakhta system -- 3.3. Comments on the two trading systems -- 4. Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chia Ning: The Tribute System in the Qing Dynasty: From Mechanism of Empire-Building to Origins of the Dynastic Fall -- Inherited Tribute Traditions -- Tribute and Its Ritual Protocols -- Tribute and Political Entitlement -- Tribute and Two Forms of Material Exchange -- Tribute in Asia -- Tribute and the West -- Conclusion -- Attachment -- Bibliography -- Bakhyt Ezhenkhan-uli: Notes on the Early Discourse of the Qing Court about the ˋKazakh Tribute' -- 1. The Conceptualization of ˋHeavenly Horses' and the Analogy of ˋKazakh Dayuan' -- 2. The So-Called ˋAbulai's Declaration of Surrender' -- 3. Chinggis Khan's legacy and the ˋKazakh tribute' -- Bibliography -- Zsombor Rajkai: Tribute as a Diplomatic Strategy in Early Ming China -- 1. Tributary and non-tributary relations -- 2. Ambiguous Mongol influence on early Ming China -- 3. Foreign policy of early Ming China -- 4. Perception of tributary relations by foreign political entities -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Morris Rossabi: Yongle, Tributary Relations, and Foreign Policy -- James Hevia and Qing Foreign Relations -- Yongle and Expansionist Policy -- Gifts and Realism -- Korea and the Jurchens -- Yongle and Failed Diplomacy -- Conclusion: Yongle's Foreign Policies -- Bibliography -- Britta-Maria Gruber: Mongolian Tribute to the Manchu Ruler in 1632 and the Ruler's Gifts Given in Return -- Conclusion -- Source text -- Bibliography -- Rui Manuel Loureiro: Early Iberian Reports on the Ming Tribute System: From Tomé Pires (1516) to Juan González de Mendoza (1585) -- Literature -- Wan Ming 明: Focusing on the Indian Ocean: An Interpretation of the Tributary System in the Early 15th Century -- Introduction -- Part I: Unprecedented Orientation in Ming China: The Seven Voyages to the Indian Ocean.

1. ˋThe Namoli Ocean' in Ma Huan's Writings - the Indian Ocean -- 2. The Destination of the First Voyage - Guli 古 國 (Calicut) -- 3. Guli (Calicut) - From Destination to Transit Point -- 4. A comprehensive understanding of Guli's status -- Part Two: Construction of International System of the Indian Ocean in the Early 15th Century -- 1. Geo-politics of the Indian Ocean: The overall promotion of state power -- 2. Geo-economics in the Indian Ocean: Formation of resource cooperation mechanism -- Part Three: The international system of the Indian Ocean in the early 15th century: Deconstruction of western hegemonic discourse -- Bibliography -- The Tribute -- Sally K. Church 程思 : A Lion Presented as Tribute during Chen Cheng's . Diplomatic Expeditions to Herat (1413-1420) -- 1. Documents Available before the 1980s -- 2. Documents Available after 1984 -- 3. The Poem on the Lion -- 4. The Rhapsody on the Lion -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Ralph Kauz: Fiction, Painting and Reality: Paliuwan in Chinese Sources -- The ˋaffair' Paliuwan -- The ˋPaliuwan painting' -- Bibliography -- Graeme Ford: The Persian College Exemplary Letters in the Late Ming ˋHuayiyiyu' Dictionary -- Tribute lists -- Tribute letters and petitions -- The historical background of the ˋHuihuiguan' laiwen -- The ˋHuihuiguan' laiwen texts -- Laiwen I Tribute letter from Sultan Aḥmad -- Laiwen II Petition from Sayyid Ḥusain about a mosque -- Laiwen III Petition about an ambassador's stipend -- Laiwen IV Tribute letter from Sulṭān Zamān Wang of the land of Balkh -- Laiwen V Khwājah Hamdūng's request for a travel permit -- VI Personnel request from Maulā Ḥasan of Hami Garrison -- Laiwen VII Tribute letter from Ja'far Ṣādiq Wang of Baṣra -- Laiwen VIII Hami's appeal for help against the attack by Sultan ˋAli -- Laiwen IX Tribute letter from Egypt -- Short tribute forms -- Laiwen X.

Laiwen XV -- Laiwen XXI -- Longer tribute forms -- Laiwen XXII -- Laiwen XXIII -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- James K. Chin: Envoys, Brokers and Interpreters: Chinese Merchants in the Tribute System of Imperial China -- The Korean Peninsula -- Japan -- The Ryukyu Archipelago -- Siam -- Archipelago Southeast Asia -- South Asia -- Faked Tribute Missions -- The Europeans and the Chinese Tribute System -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Roderich Ptak: Xiangshan County, Maritime Trade and Local Tribute (c. 1000-1550). With Special Consideration of Selected Animal Products -- 1. Xiangshan: The Topographical Setting and Its Changes -- 2. From Song to Early Ming: Demography, Economy, Maritime Relations -- 3. Xiangshan's Maritime Orientation after the End of Zheng He's Voyages -- 4. Xiangshan and the tugong System -- 5. Additional Remarks on Gejie and Feicui and General Conclusion -- 6. Literature: Primary Sources (quoted by title) -- 7. Literature: Secondary Sources -- Csaba Olah: Legal Private Trade within the Framework of the Ming Tribute System -- Introduction -- Legal private trade - Definition and historical development -- Foreign trade environment in the Ming period - Official trade vs. legal private trade -- Legal private trade as a source for troubles -- Final remarks -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Ching-fei Shih: A Case Study of Tribute Gift from the ˋWestern Ocean': Wooden Goblets with Nesting Cups in the Qing Court -- 1. Preface -- 2. Nürnberg goblet? The case of a global history -- 3. New Curiosities: Objects to the Qing Court -- 4. The Qing court context: Translation and Construction -- 5. Conclusion -- Tables and Figures -- Literature -- List of Contributors.