Tribute system and rulership in late imperial China /

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

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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)
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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.

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