China and the Silk Roads (ca. 100 BCE to 1800 CE) : : role and content of its historical access to the outside world / / by Angela Schottenhammer.

• Superior document: Crossroads - history of interactions across the Silk Routes ; volume 6
• VerfasserIn: Schottenhammer, Angela,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2023]
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Crossroads - history of interactions across the silk routes ; v. 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 526 pages) :; illustrations (some color), maps (some color).

The book investigates China's relations to the outside world between ca. 100 BCE and 1800 CE. In contrast to most histories of the Silk Roads, the focus of this book clearly lies on the maritime Silk Road and on the period between Tang and high Qing, selecting aspects that have so far been neglected in research on the history of China's relations with the outside world.

Table of Contents

General remarks on 'tribute', 'tribute trade', and China's 'tribute system' -- Han expansion and colonisation -- Tang expansion and power alliances -- Song China: economic giant and military dwarf? -- Mongol Yuan China and the Maritime Silk Roads: cutting deals? -- Ming foreign relations and Maritime engagement in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean -- Qing China's foreign relations, with focus on Japan and the Ryūkyūs -- Connecting China with the Pacific world?