China on the sea /
This volume challenges the "Walled Kingdom" perspective. China reached out to the seas far more actively than historians have allowed, while the maritime world shaped China, Qing China in particular, much more than the continental world. It gave birth to and defined Chinese modernity
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Multiple |
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Boston :
Brill,
c2012
Leiden ; Boston : ©2012 |
| Series: | China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 21 China studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 21 |
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| Summary: | This volume challenges the "Walled Kingdom" perspective. China reached out to the seas far more actively than historians have allowed, while the maritime world shaped China, Qing China in particular, much more than the continental world. It gave birth to and defined Chinese modernity |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 362 p.) : ill. ; cm 1 online resource (viii, 362 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-352) and index Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004194770 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9004194770 9004194789 9789004194779 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9789004194779 9789004194786 (electronic book) 9789004194786 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only |