Autore	Ng Chin-Keong
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore, : NUS Press, 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (518 pages)
Disciplina	382.09510903
Soggetto topico	Merchant marine - China - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato	History China South China Sea Maritime History Fujian Guangzhou Junk (ship) Ming dynasty Portuguese people Qing dynasty Xiamen
ISBN	981-4722-44-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Part One: Maritime East Asia in Historical Perspective -- 1. Commodity and Market: Structure of the Long-distance Trade in the East Asian Seas and Beyond Prior to the Early Nineteenth Century 3 -- Part Two: Between "Us" and "Them" -- 2. Maritime Frontiers, Territorial Expansion and Haifang (Coastal Defense) during the Late Ming and High Qing -- 3. Trade, the Sea Prohibition and the "Folangji", 1513-50 -- 4. Treaties, Politics and the Limits of Local Diplomacy in Fuzhou in the Early 1850s -- 5. "Shooting the Eagle": Lin Changyi's Agony in the Wake of the Opium War -- 6. Information and Knowledge: Qing China's Perceptions of the Maritime World in the Eighteenth Century -- Part Three: Pushing the Traditional Boundaries -- 7. The Changing Landscape in Rural South Fujian in Late-Ming Times: A Story of the "Little People" (1) -- 8. Gentry-Merchants and Peasant-Peddlers in Offshore Trading Activities, 1522-66: A Story of the "Little People" (2) -- 9. Managing Maritime Affairs in Late-Ming Times -- 10. Liturgical Services and Business Fortunes: Chinese Maritime Merchants in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries -- 11. The Amoy Riots of 1852: Coolie Emigration and Sino-British Relations -- Part Four: Transcending Borders -- 12. Expanding Possibilities: Revisiting the Min-Yue Junk-trade Enterprise on the China Coast and in the Nanyang during the Eighteenth to the Mid-nineteenth Centuries -- 13. The Case of Chen Yilao: Maritime Trade and Overseas Chinese in Qing Policies, 1717-54 -- 14. "Are These Persons British or Chinese Subjects?": Legal Principles and Ambiguities Regarding the Status of the Straits Chinese as Revealed in the Lee Shun Fah Affair in Amoy, 1847.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910219991703321

Autore	Zhang Feng <1980->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (280 p.)
Disciplina	327.5105
Soggetto topico	Hegemony - China - History Hegemony - East Asia - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8047-9504-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Transliterations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- one. Introduction -- two. A Relational Theory of Grand Strategy -- three. Sino-Korean Relations -- four. Sino-Japanese Relations -- five. Sino-Mongol Relations -- six. Fundamental Institutions of Chinese Hegemony -- seven. The Value of Relationalism -- appendix I. Major Periods in Ancient and Imperial China -- appendix II. Translation of Key Chinese Terms and Expressions -- Notes -- References -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910460779303321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Lanham, : Lexington Books, c2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (246 p.)
Disciplina	951
Altri autori (Persone)	Kyong-McClainJeff DuYongtao <1970->
Soggetto topico	Nationalism - China - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-299-31616-6 0-7391-7231-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	CHINESE HISTORY IN GEOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVE; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Contested Terrain of a Geographical Entity; 1. Early Modern Mapping at the Qing Court: Survey Maps from the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong Reign Periods; 2. Kangxi's Auspicious Empire: Rhetorics of Geographic Integration in the Early Qing; 3. De-civilizing Ming China's Southern Border: Vietnam as Lost Province or Barbarian Culture; 4. The Geography of Dragon Boat Racing in Late Imperial China 5. Writing Personalized Local History during the Late Ming and the Ming-Qing Transition: The Case of a Ming Loyalist6. An Ambush of Tigers: A Socio-Ecological History of the Ming-Qing Fujian Tiger Menace; 7. The New Frontier: Zhuang Xueben and Xikang Province; 8. Native-Place Ties in Transnational Networks: Overseas Chinese Nationalism and Fujian's Development, 1928-1941; 9. A Preliminary Investigation of the Urban Morphology of Towns of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; 10. Spatial Analysis and GIS Modeling of Regional Religious Systems in China: Conceptualization and Initial Experiments Epilogue: What Is a Geographical Perspective on China's History?Index; About the Contributors
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465115303321

Autore	Brook Timothy <1951->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1998
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (348 p.)
Disciplina	951/.026
Soggetto topico	HISTORY / Asia / General
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-32073-8 9786613320735 0-520-92407-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- A Ming Chronology -- A Genealogy of Ming Emperors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Seasons of the' Ming (1609) -- Dramatis Personae -- Winter: The First Century (1368-1450) -- Spring: The Middle Century (1450-1550) -- Summer: The Last Century (1550-1644) -- Fall: The Lord of Silver (1642-1644) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary and Index
Record Nr.	UNISA-996248337903316