1368
China and the Making of the Modern World
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Stanford University Press
- Date of Publication 13 February 2024
- ISBN 9781503638136
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 362 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 27 halftones 587
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Long description:
A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.
The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. 1368 maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of European mariners and the shock of the Opium Wars. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of world history, China's current rise evokes an earlier epoch, one that sheds light on where Beijing is heading today.
Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe palaces of silk and jade in Beijing's Forbidden City. Malay legends recount stories of Chinese princesses arriving in Melaka with gifts of porcelain and gold. During Europe's Age of Exploration, Iberian mariners charted new passages to China, which the Dutch and British East India Companies transformed into lucrative tea routes.
But during the British Industrial Revolution, the rise of steam engines and factories allowed the export of the very commodities once imported from China. By the end of the Opium Wars and the arrival of Commodore Perry in Japan, Chinese and Japanese reformers called for their own industrial revolutions to propel them into the twentieth century.
What has the world learned from China since the Ming, and how did China reemerge in the 1970s as a manufacturing superpower? Akhtar's book provides much-needed context for understanding China's rise today and the future of its connections with both the West and a resurgent Asia.
"An original global history that tells a compelling story of the interconnectedness of the world in premodern times."?Fabio Rambelli, UC Santa Barbara More
Table of Contents:
Index
1. Five Hundred Years across the Indian Ocean and
South China Sea
2. Global Beijing under the Great Ming
3. Picturing China in Persian along the Silk Routes
4. Trading with China in Malay along the Spice Routes
5. Europe's Search for the Spice Islands
6. A Sino-Jesuit Tradition of Science and Mapmaking
7. Porcelain across the Dutch Empire
8. Tea across the British Empire
9. China's Eclipse and Japan's Modernization
Epilogue: A New Turn to the East
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
