China and the Silk Roads (ca. 100 BCE to 1800 CE) : role and content of its historical access to the outside world /  by Angela Schottenhammer.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

General remarks on 'tribute', 'tribute trade', and China's 'tribute system' -- Han expansion and colonisation -- Tang expansion and power alliances -- Song China: economic giant and military dwarf? -- Mongol Yuan China and the Maritime Silk Roads: cutting deals? -- Ming foreign relations and Maritime engagement in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean -- Qing China's foreign relations, with focus on Japan and the Ryūkyūs -- Connecting China with the Pacific world?

"The book investigates China's relations to the outside world between ca. 100 BCE and 1800 CE. In contrast to most histories of the Silk Roads, the focus of this book clearly lies on the maritime Silk Road and on the period between Tang and high Qing, selecting aspects that have so far been neglected in research on the history of China's relations with the outside world. The author examines, for example, issue of 'imperialism' in imperial China, the specific role of fanbing (frontier tribal troops) during Song times, the interrelationship between maritime commerce, military expansion, and environmental factors during the Yuan, the question of whether or not early Ming China can be considered a (proto-)colonialist country, the role force and violence played during the Zheng He expeditions, and the significance the Asia-Pacific world possessed for late Ming and early Qing rulers"-- Provided by publisher.

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The emporium of the world : maritime Quanzhou, 1000-1400 / edited by Angela Schottenhammer.

Papers originally prepared for an international conference held in Leiden, the Netherlands, - September 26-27, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Impact of the Song: Imperial Clan on the Overseas Trade of Quanzhou /  John W. Chaffee  13 --  Overseas Trade and Social Change in Quanzhou through the Song /  Hugh R. Clark  47 --  Role of Metals and the Impact of the Introduction of Huizi Paper Notes in Quanzhou on the Development of Maritime Trade in the Song Period /  Angela Schottenhammer  95 --  Port, City, and Hinterlands: Archaeological Perspectives on Quanzhou and its Overseas Trade /  Richard Pearson, Li Min, Li Guo  177 --  Ceramic Boom in Minnan during Song and Yuan Times /  Ho Chuimei  237 --  Tamil Merchant Guilds and the Quanzhou Trade /  John Guy  283 --  Behind the Shadows: Archaeological Data on Two-way Sea-Trade between Quanzhou and Satingpra, South Thailand, 10th-14th Century /  Janice Stargardt  309 --  Quanzhou: At the Northern Edge of a Southeast Asian "Mediterranean"? /  Roderich Ptak  395.

"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 elites 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."--Publisher description.

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