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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Introduction / W.E. Willmott -- The organizational capabilities of the Ch'ing state in the field of commerce : the Liang-huai salt monopoly, 1740-1840 / Thomas A. Metzger -- Finance in Ningpo : the "Ch'ien Chuang," 1750-1880 / Susan Mann Jones -- Sericulture and silk textile production in Ch'ing China / E-tu Zen Sun -- Cotton culture and manufacture in early Ch'ing China / Craig Dietrich -- The high-level equilibrium trap : the causes of the decline of invention in the traditional Chinese textile industries / Mark Elvin -- The commercialization of agriculture in modern China / Ramon H. Myers -- The sociology of irrigation : two Taiwanese villages / Burton Pasternak -- Marketing on the Changhua plain, Taiwan / Lawrence W. Crissman -- The inculcation of economic values in Taipei business families / Stephen M. Olsen -- Doing business in Lukang / Donald R. de Glopper -- Marketing and credit in a Hong Kong wholesale market / Robert H. Silin -- A small factory in Hong Kong : some aspects of its internal organization / Barbara E. Ward -- Economic management of a production brigade in post-leap China / John C. Pelzel.

"In light of East Asia's current economic success, it has become increasingly clear that Confucian social thought, long assumed in Western scholarship to be a major stumbling block to economic development, can, under the proper circumstances, have exactly the opposite effect. Lufrano's study is the most sustained and sophisticated of recent reevaluations of Confucianism's role in the rapid commercial development in the late Ming to mid-Qing period. It will be of great interest and value to scholars in the growing field of Chinese business history and should be welcomed by those interested in the Confucian roots of Pacific Rim business practice."--Jacket.

1. The Late Imperial World: Commerce, Education, and Society -- 2. The Confucian Origins of the Apprentice's Education -- 3. The Apprentice's Education Begins -- 4. Relations with Government and Community -- 5. Personal Relations in the Marketplace -- 6. The Market, Management, Money, and Finance -- 7. Travel and Crime -- Conclusion: Self-Cultivation in Mid-Level Merchant Culture -- App. The Maoyi xuzhi Manual.

Another copy Gleeson Library.
Book review online at H-Net Reviews.

Miscellaneous notes on foreign countries and their products, in two parts, the first arranged by country: the second, by product.
"Zhufan zhi, Zhao Rugua, [fl.] 1242-58 .... Zhao was shibosi 市舶司 (superintendent of shipping) at Quanzhou and based his account partly on information obtained from merchants there..." Cf. Wilkinson, Chinese history, a manual, p. 746. (Wilkinson cites several of the following included titles in the chapter on non-Han peoples).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional titles in this volume, most concerning trade and relations with border peoples, ethnic minorities, and notes on Southeast Asia:
Xi Man congxiao 溪蠻叢笑 / Zhu Fu zhuan 朱輔撰 -- Zhenla fengtu ji 真臘風土記 / Zhou Daguan zhuan 周達觀撰 -- Daoyi zhilüe 島夷志略 / Wang Dayuan zhuan 汪大淵撰 -- Chaoxian fu 朝鮮賦 / Dong Yue zhuan 董越撰 -- Haiyu 海語 / Huang Zhong zhuan 黃衷撰 -- Dong-Xiyang kao 東西洋考 / Zhang Bian zhuan 張變撰 -- Zhifang waiji 職方外紀 / Xiyang Ai Rulüe [i.e. Giulio Aleni] zhuan 西洋艾儒略撰 -- Chiya 赤雅 / Kuang Lu zhuan 鄺露撰 -- Chaoxian zhi 朝鮮志 / 不著撰人 -- Kunyu tushuo 坤輿圖說 / Xiyang Nan Huairen [i.e. Ferdinand Verbiest] zhuan 西洋南懷仁撰 -- Yiyu lu 異域錄 / Jueluo Tulichen zhuan 覺羅圖理琛撰 -- Haiguo wenjian lu 海國聞見錄 / Chen Lunjiong zhuan 陳倫炯撰.