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The Emporium of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 487

The Emporium of the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-08-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume, by offering a score of new insights derived from a wide variety of recent archaeological and textual sources, bring to life an important overseas trading port in Southeast Asia: Quanzhou. During the Song and Yuan dynasties active official and unofficial engagement in trade had formative effects on the development of the maritime trade of Quanzhou and its social and economic position both regionally and supraregionally. In the first part subjects such as the impact of the Song imperial clan and the local élites on these developments, the economic importance of metals, coins, paper money, and changes in the political economy, are amply discussed. The second part concentrates on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of archaeological data and materials, the investigation of commodities from China, their origins, distribution and final destinations, the use of foreign labour, and the particular role of South Thailand in trade connections, thus supplying the hard data underlying the main argument of the book.

Portrait of a Community
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

Portrait of a Community

Portrait of a Community examines emerging kinship structures as embedded in the social and cultural history of a river valley in a central coastal Fujian province from the ninth through thirteenth centuries. The book demonstrates how cultural innovation often begins at a local level.

Preventive Medicine for the Doctor in His Community
  • Language: en

Preventive Medicine for the Doctor in His Community

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The New and the Multiple
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 532

The New and the Multiple

This is the first comprehensive English study of Sung Chinese historical consciousness. Written by leading Sung scholars in the United States, Europe, Japan and Taiwan, the eleven articles in this collection seek to understand how Sung scholars perceived the past.

National Endowment for the Humanities ... Annual Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

National Endowment for the Humanities ... Annual Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 461

China

This deeply informed and beautifully written book provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Focusing on the interaction of humans and their environment, Robert B. Marks traces changes in the physical and cultural world that is home to a quarter of humankind. Through both word and image, this work illuminates the chaos and paradox inherent in China's environmental narrative, demonstrating how historically sustainable practices can, in fact, be profoundly ecologically unsound. The author also reevaluates China's traditional "he.

Humanities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

Humanities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 431

The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Introduction: The invisible empire -- The discourse of ethnicity -- Agriculture and foodways -- Vernacular languages -- Marking territory : the militarization of the Huai frontier -- Making hierarchy : garrison, court, and the structure of Jiankang politics -- Managing prosperity : the political economy of a commercial empire -- The vernacular repertoire -- The Sinitic repertoire -- The Buddhist repertoire : the era of pluralist patronage -- The Buddhist repertoire : Jiankang as theater state -- Conclusion: Re-orienting East Asian and world history.

Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours

At a time when China-Southeast Asia relationships are undergoing profound changes, it is pleasing to have a volume which examines the interactions between China and the polities and societies to the south through time. With multiple aims of exploring the relations between northern Chinese cultures and those of the south, examining the cultural plurality of areas which are today parts of Southern China, and illuminating the relations between Sinitic and non-Sinitic societies, the volume is broad in concept and content. Within these extensive rubrics, this edited collection further interrogates the nature of Asian polities and their historiography, the constitution of Chineseness, imperial China's southern expansions, cultural hybridity, economic relations, regional systems and ethnic interactions across East Asia. The editors Victor H. Mair and Liam C. Kelley are to be congratulated for bringing together such a wealth of contributions offering nascent interpretations and broad overviews, set within the overarching historical and contemporary contexts provided through Wang Gungwu's introduction.- Dr Geoffrey Wade, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University

Community, Trade, and Networks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Community, Trade, and Networks

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The study traces the economic and demographic history of a corner of China's southeast coast from the third to the thirteenth centuries, looking at the relationship between changes in the agrarian and urban economies of the area and their connections to the expanding role of domestic and foreign trade. It provides a previously unexplored perspective on the role of commercialized production and trade in a regional economy in the premodern era and demonstrates that trade was able to drive change in a premodern economy in a way that has not generally been recognized.