LEADER 04437nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910825125403321 005 20240418022759.0 010 $a1-283-89052-6 010 $a0-8122-0358-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203585 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104518 035 $a(OCoLC)802047388 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576048 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703072 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11475495 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703072 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10690222 035 $a(PQKB)10425638 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18483 035 $a(DE-B1597)449227 035 $a(OCoLC)979580422 035 $a(OCoLC)999360523 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203585 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441608 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576048 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420302 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441608 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104518 100 $a20090811d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Blacks of premodern China /$fDon J. Wyatt 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aEncounters with Asia 311 $a0-8122-4193-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER ONE. From History'S Mists --$tCHAPTER Two. The Slaves Of Guangzhou --$tCHAPTER THREE. To The End Of The Western Sea --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tGLOSSARY --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS 330 $aPremodern Chinese described a great variety of the peoples they encountered as "black." The earliest and most frequent of these encounters were with their Southeast Asian neighbors, specifically the Malayans. But by the midimperial times of the seventh through seventeenth centuries C.E., exposure to peoples from Africa, chiefly slaves arriving from the area of modern Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, gradually displaced the original Asian "blacks" in Chinese consciousness. In The Blacks of Premodern China, Don J. Wyatt presents the previously unexamined story of the earliest Chinese encounters with this succession of peoples they have historically regarded as black.A series of maritime expeditions along the East African coastline during the early fifteenth century is by far the best known and most documented episode in the story of China's premodern interaction with African blacks. Just as their Western contemporaries had, the Chinese aboard the ships that made landfall in Africa encountered peoples whom they frequently classified as savages. Yet their perceptions of the blacks they met there differed markedly from those of earlier observers at home in that there was little choice but to regard the peoples encountered as free.The premodern saga of dealings between Chinese and blacks concludes with the arrival in China of Portuguese and Spanish traders and Italian clerics with their black slaves in tow. In Chinese writings of the time, the presence of the slaves of the Europeans becomes known only through sketchy mentions of black bondservants. Nevertheless, Wyatt argues that the story of these late premodern blacks, laboring anonymously in China under their European masters, is but a more familiar extension of the previously untold story of their ancestors who toiled in Chinese servitude perhaps in excess of a millennium earlier. 410 0$aEncounters with Asia. 606 $aAfricans$zChina$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aBlack people$zChina$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aSlavery$zChina$zGuangzhou$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aAfrica$xRelations$zChina 607 $aChina$xRace relations 607 $aChina$xRelations$zAfrica 607 $aGuangzhou (China)$xRace relations 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aAsian Studies. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aLinguistics. 610 $aMiddle Eastern Studies. 615 0$aAfricans$xHistory 615 0$aBlack people$xHistory 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory 676 $a305.89605109 700 $aWyatt$b Don J$01619684 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825125403321 996 $aThe Blacks of premodern China$93952058 997 $aUNINA