Tribute And Trade

Author : William Christie,Angela Dunstan,Q.S. Tong
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781743325995

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Tribute and Trade by William Christie,Angela Dunstan,Q.S. Tong Pdf

In the 18th and 19th centuries, relations between China and the West were defined by the Qing dynasty’s strict restrictions on foreign access and by the West’s imperial ambitions. Cultural, political and economic interactions were often fraught, with suspicion and misunderstanding on both sides. Yet trade flourished and there were instances of cultural exchange and friendship, running counter to the official narrative. Tribute and Trade: China and Global Modernity explores encounters between China and the West during this period and beyond, into the early 20th century, through examples drawn from art, literature, science, politics, music, cooking, clothing and more. How did China and the West see each other, how did they influence each other, and what were the lasting legacies of this contact?

Author : Howard J. Erlichman
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 163388662X

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Conquest, Tribute, and Trade by Howard J. Erlichman Pdf

This engrossing popular history makes many intriguing connections between precious metals like gold and silver as sources of economic wealth and the rise of empires, showing that the forces of globalization have been five centuries in the making.

Author : David Kang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 9780231153195

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East Asia Before the West by David Kang Pdf

From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they have grown more powerful, the atmosphere around them has stabilized. Focusing on the role of the "tribute system" in maintaining stability in East Asia and fostering diplomatic and commercial exchange, Kang contrasts this history against the example of Europe and the East Asian states' skirmishes with nomadic peoples to the north and west. Scholars tend to view Europe's experience as universal, but Kang upends this tradition, emphasizing East Asia's formal hierarchy as an international system with its own history and character. His approach not only recasts common understandings of East Asian relations but also defines a model that applies to other hegemonies outside of the European order.

Author : Sarasin Viraphol
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684172078

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Tribute and Profit by Sarasin Viraphol Pdf

Tribute and Profit illuminates the conduct and maintenance of maritime trade under Siam’s tributary relationship with imperial China, and scrutinizes the momentous role of the Chinese in Siam’s overseas trade and domestic economy. Based substantially on historical Chinese, Siamese, and European sources, Sarasin Viraphol’s reconstruction of the tributary trade pinpoints the creative subversions, calculated risks, and clever contrivances that kept the wheels of the Siamese economy turning for centuries. Eventually, tribute missions and the junk trade were supplanted by European-style maritime commerce, free trade, and open markets. Nevertheless, the influences of these bygone relations are still present in Thailand today.

Author : Angela Schottenhammer
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Communication
ISBN : 3447102381

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Tribute, Trade and Smuggling by Angela Schottenhammer Pdf

Officially, relations between a so-called empire like China and her neighboring countries were frequently designated as tribute relations. In reality, however, much of the commercial, scientific and human intercourse that was going on not only in Asia but in the middle period and early modern world in general followed illegal or private paths and channels. Commodities, products, knowledge or human beings entered or left a country - or simply crossed borders - without the explicit permission or approval of a government or an official institution. This bilingual volume with English and Spanish essays investigates networks of unofficial, private or illegal commercial exchange activities and knowledge transfer, including the trafficking of people as well as human interaction that took place behind the official curtain of tribute and trade. The geographical focus definitely lies on East Asia, and almost every contribution at least relates to this macro-region. But it also introduces comparative examples from the Indian Ocean, the Asia-Pacific and the Atlantic and adjacent countries.

Author : Ross Hassig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0806125632

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Trade, Tribute, and Transportation by Ross Hassig Pdf

Author : Manuel Perez Garcia,Lucio De Sousa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811040535

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Global History and New Polycentric Approaches by Manuel Perez Garcia,Lucio De Sousa Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its emergence in Asia with the rapid development of the Chinese economy motivation to legitimate the current uniqueness of the history and economy of the nation. It contributes to the revitalization of the field of global history in Chinese historiography, which have been dominated by national narratives and promotes a debate to open new venues in which important features such as scholarly mobility, diversity and internationalization are firmly rooted, putting aside national specificities. Dealing with new approaches on the use of empirical data by framing the proper questions and hypotheses and connecting western and eastern sources, this text opens a new forum of discussion on how global history has penetrated in western and eastern historiographies, moving the pivotal axis of analysis from national perspectives to open new venues of global history.

Author : Ross Hassig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:255934029

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Trade, Tribute, and Transportation by Ross Hassig Pdf

Author : Grange Books PLC
Publisher : Grange Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1840135093

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9-11 by Grange Books PLC Pdf

Pictorial tribute to the people who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.

Author : Martin Stuart-Fox
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1864489545

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A Short History of China and Southeast Asia by Martin Stuart-Fox Pdf

New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive short history of China's relationships with its Southeast Asian neighbours from ancient times to the present day.

Author : Bill Harris
Publisher : Courage Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015055614542

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The World Trade Center by Bill Harris Pdf

Lavishly illustrated with photographic images of the Trade Center buildings during the long years of construction as well as of the everyday life there of the thousands who worked there, this book serves as a reminder to Americans of what was lost on that September morning.

Author : Timothy Brook,Michael van Walt van Praag,Miek Boltjes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226562933

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Sacred Mandates by Timothy Brook,Michael van Walt van Praag,Miek Boltjes Pdf

Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, redresses this oversight by examining the complex history of inter-polity relations in Inner and East Asia from the thirteenth century to the twentieth, in order to help us understand and develop policies to address challenges in the region today. This book argues that understanding the diversity of past legal orders helps explain the forms of contemporary conflict, as well as the conflicting historical narratives that animate tensions. Rather than proceed sequentially by way of dynasties, the editors identify three “worlds”—Chingssid Mongol, Tibetan Buddhist, and Confucian Sinic—that represent different forms of civilization authority and legal order. This novel framework enables us to escape the modern tendency to view the international system solely as the interaction of independent states, and instead detect the effects of the complicated history at play between and within regions. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines cover a host of topics: the development of international law, sovereignty, state formation, ruler legitimacy, and imperial expansion, as well as the role of spiritual authority on state behavior, the impact of modernization, and the challenges for peace processes. The culmination of five years of collaborative research, Sacred Mandates will be the definitive historical guide to international and intrastate relations in Asia, of interest to policymakers and scholars alike, for years to come.

Author : William Christie,Angela Dunstan,Quingsheng Tong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1743326009

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China and Global Modernity by William Christie,Angela Dunstan,Quingsheng Tong Pdf

This volume of essays seeks to interpret cultural relations and individual encounters between Europe and China in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Because of the severe limitations on access to China imposed by the Qing government in the 18th century, 'Sino-European encounters in this period were mediated more by things than by people', as Kristel Smentek has remarked. The contributors to this volume look at how particular objects (gifts, books, tea, porcelain, paintings) mediated relations between China and the West. Examining cultural, political, and trade exchange from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, they explore how the objects, ideas, and values of each culture were both understood and misunderstood by the other. They also consider the often contentious encounters between the Europeans and the Chinese before and after the Opium Wars of the mid-19th century, and the rare sociable encounters that took place, often counter to the official narrative.

Author : Daguan Zhou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Cambodia
ISBN : UOM:39015038139518

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The Customs of Cambodia by Daguan Zhou Pdf

Author : Gerda Stevenson
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781912387786

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Quines by Gerda Stevenson Pdf

Singers, politicians, a fish-gutter, queens, a dancer, a marine engineer, a salt seller, sportswomen, scientists and many more – Quines celebrates and explores the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.