China on the Sea: How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China

China on the Sea: How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China
ISBN-10
9004194789
ISBN-13
9789004194786
Category
History
Pages
372
Language
English
Published
2011-10-14
Publisher
BRILL
Author
Zheng Yangwen

Description

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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