LEADER 03945nam 22005655 450 001 9910833100603321 005 20240313151626.0 010 $a1-5036-1283-X 010 $a1-5036-3151-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503631519 035 $a(CKB)5460000000197502 035 $a(DE-B1597)627947 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503631519 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29920119 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29920119 035 $a(OCoLC)1276804710 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000197502 100 $a20220629h20222022 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a1368 $eChina and the Making of the Modern World /$fAli Humayun Akhtar 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (256 pages) 311 $a1-5036-3813-8 311 $a1-5036-2747-0 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tCHAPTER 1 Five Hundred Years across the Indian Ocean and South China Sea --$tCHAPTER 2 Global Beijing under the Great Ming --$tCHAPTER 3 Picturing China in Persian along the Silk Routes --$tCHAPTER 4 Trading with China in Malay along the Spice Routes --$tCHAPTER 5 Europe?s Search for the Spice Islands --$tCHAPTER 6 A Sino-Jesuit Tradition of Science and Mapmaking --$tCHAPTER 7 Porcelain across the Dutch Empire --$tCHAPTER 8 Tea across the British Empire --$tCHAPTER 9 China?s Eclipse and Japan?s Modernization --$tEPILOGUE A New Turn to the East --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aA new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. 1368 maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of European mariners and the shock of the Opium Wars. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of world history, China's current rise evokes an earlier epoch, one that sheds light on where Beijing is heading today. Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe palaces of silk and jade in Beijing's Forbidden City. Malay legends recount stories of Chinese princesses arriving in Melaka with gifts of porcelain and gold. During Europe's Age of Exploration, Iberian mariners charted new passages to China, which the Dutch and British East India Companies transformed into lucrative tea routes. But during the British Industrial Revolution, the rise of steam engines and factories allowed the export of the very commodities once imported from China. By the end of the Opium Wars and the arrival of Commodore Perry in Japan, Chinese and Japanese reformers called for their own industrial revolutions to propel them into the twentieth century. What has the world learned from China since the Ming, and how did China reemerge in the 1970s as a manufacturing superpower? Akhtar's book provides much-needed context for understanding China's rise today and the future of its connections with both the West and a resurgent Asia. 610 $aAge of Exploration. 610 $aChinese manufacturing. 610 $aDutch and British East India Companies. 610 $aIndian Ocean. 610 $aJesuits in China. 610 $aMing and Qing Dynasties. 610 $aSouth China Sea. 610 $adeindustrialization. 610 $aopium wars. 610 $asilk and spice routes. 676 $a951/.026 700 $aAkhtar$b Ali Humayun$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01726293 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910833100603321 996 $a1368$94132011 997 $aUNINA