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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Chinese visions of world order : tianxia, culture, and world politics /  Ban Wang, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tianxia, Confucianism, and empire. Tianxia and the invention of empire in East Asia / Mark Edward Lewis and Hsieh Mei-Yu -- From empire to state: Kang Youwei, Confucian universalism, and unity / Wang Hui -- The Chinese world order and planetary sustainability / Prasenjit Duara -- Tianxia, cross-cultural learning, and cosmopolitanism. The moral vision in Kang Youwei's Book of the great community / Ban Wang -- Greek antiquity, Chinese modernity, and the changing world order / Yiqun Zhou -- Realizing tianxia : traditional values and China's foreign policy / Daniel A. Bell -- Tianxia and socialist internationalism. Tianxia and postwar Japanese Sinologists' vision of the Chinese Revolution : the cases of Nishi Junzō and Mizoguchi Yūzō / Viren Murthy -- China's lost world of internationalism / Lin Chun -- China's tianxia worldings : socialist and postsocialist cosmopolitanisms / Lisa Rofel -- Tianxia and its discontents. The soft power of the constant soldier : or, why we should stop worrying and learn to love the PLA / Haiyan Lee -- Tracking tianxia : on intellectual self-positioning / Chishen Chang and Kuan-Hsing Chen.

The Confucian doctrine of tianxia (all under heaven) outlines a unitary worldview that cherishes global justice and transcends social, geographic, and political divides. For contemporary scholars, it has held myriad meanings, from the articulation of a cultural imaginary and political strategy to a moralistic commitment and a cosmological vision. The contributors to Chinese Visions of World Order examine the evolution of tianxia's meaning and practice in the Han dynasty and its mutations in modern times. They attend to its varied interpretations, its relation to realpolitik, and its revival in twenty-first-century China. They also investigate tianxia's birth in antiquity and its role in empire building, invoke its cultural universalism as a new global imagination for the contemporary world, analyze its resonance and affinity with cosmopolitanism in East-West cultural relations, discover its persistence in China's socialist internationalism and third world agenda, and critique its deployment as an official state ideology. In so doing, they demonstrate how China draws on its past to further its own alternative vision of the current international system. -- Back cover.

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Contents: Schall and Verbiest : to God through the stars -- Peter Parker : bodies or souls -- Ward and Gordon : glorious days of looting -- Lay and Hart : power, patronage, pay -- Martin and Fryer : trimming the lamps -- Edward Hume : Yale for China -- Mikhail Borodin : life in the sun -- Todd and Bethune : overcome all terrors -- Chennault, Stilwell, Wedemeyer : a compass for Shangri-La -- The last rounds : U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.