China on the sea: How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China [Audiobook] download free by Zheng Yangwen
- Listen audiobook: China on the sea: How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China
- Author: Zheng Yangwen
- Release date: 2011/3/4
- Publisher: BRILL
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9789004281608
- Rating: 7.3 of 10
- Votes: 673
- Review by: Stella Moniz
- Review rating: 7.9 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/20
- Duration: 4H38M3S in 256 kbps (72.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-26
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 SLS, Apple Lossless, MP3, WMA, MPEG4, WAV, FLAC, MOD (compression ZIP, TGZ, RAR, JAR)
- Total pages original book: 362
- Includes a PDF summary of 39 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 31M (7.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 out to the maritime world far more actively than historians have acknowledged, while the seas and what came from the seas-from Islam, fragrances and Jesuits to maize, opium and clocks-significantly changed the course of history, and have been of inestimable importance to China since the Ming. This book integrates the maritime history of China, especially the Qing period, a subject which has hitherto languished on the periphery of scholarly analysis, into the mainstream of current historical narrative. It was the seas that made Tang China a 'Cosmopolitan Empire' (Mark Lewis), the Song dynasty China's 'Greatest Age' (John Fairbank), China at 1600 'the largest and most sophisticated of all unified realms on earth' (Jonathan Spence), and the reign of the three Qing emperors (Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong) China's 'last golden age' (Charles Hucker).This book is also available in hardcover.
- Other categories, genre or collection: European History, Transportation Books, Transport Industries, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 61.65 USD
- Dimensions: 155x235x20.32mm
- Weight: 562g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Leiden, Netherlands
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