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A 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.

Age of Exploration. --- Chinese manufacturing. --- Dutch and British East India Companies. --- Indian Ocean. --- Jesuits in China. --- Ming and Qing Dynasties. --- South China Sea. --- deindustrialization. --- opium wars. --- silk and spice routes.

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The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organisations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, raise armies and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these powers without resistance. Early modern Asia stood at the center of the global economy and was home to powerful states and sprawling commercial networks. The companies may have been global enterprises but they operated in a globalised region in which they encountered a range of formidable competitors who frequently outmaneuvered or outfought their representatives. This groundbreaking collection of essays explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers, and brokers. With contributions from the most innovative historians in the field, this book presents new ways to understand these organisations by focusing on their diplomatic, commercial, and military interactions with Asia.

Colonial companies --- Commercial companies --- Companies, Colonial --- Merchant companies --- Colonization --- Commerce --- History. --- East India Company --- Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie --- Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes orientales --- Oost-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands) --- Dutch East India Company --- Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (Netherlands) --- Oostindische Vereenigde Maatschappij (Netherlands) --- East India Company (Netherlands) --- Oranda Tō-Indo Kaisha --- Tō-Indo Kaisha (Netherlands) --- Societas Privilegiata Foederati Belgii ad Navigationem & Commercia Indiarum Orientalium --- Jan Compagnie (Netherlands) --- Oranda Higashi Indo Kaisha --- Higashi Indo Kaisha (Netherlands) --- V.O.C. --- VOC --- Verenigde Nederlandsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie --- Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Netherlands) --- Nederlandse Oost-Indische Compagnie --- East India Company of the United Provinces --- Oostindische Compagnie (Netherlands) --- Generaale Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie --- United Dutch East India Company --- Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Maatschappij --- Compagnie hollandoise des Indes orientales --- Compagnie des Indes orientales hollandaises --- Niederländische Ostindische Kompanie --- Vest-Indskai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡ (Netherlands) --- Gollandskai︠a︡ torgovai︠a︡ kompanii︠a︡ (Netherlands) --- Compagnia olandese delle Indie orientali --- Compagnia riunita (Netherlands) --- Compagnia riunita delle Indie orientali (Netherlands) --- Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie --- Compagnie hollandaise des Indes orientales --- O.I. Comp. (Oost-Indische Compagnie) --- Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies --- United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies --- English East India Company --- East India Company (English) --- East India Tea Company --- East-India Companie --- United East India Company --- Compagnie des Indes orientales d'Angleterre --- Compagnie unie de marchands d'Angleterre commerçans aux Indes orientales --- Tung Yin-tu kung ssu --- Honourable East-India Company --- Sharikat al-Hind al-Sharqīyah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy --- Kumpanī-i Hind-i Sharqī --- کمپنى هند شرقى --- English Company Trading to the East-Indies --- HISTORY / General. --- Īsṭa Iṇḍiyā Kampanī --- Compañías coloniales --- Historia --- Diplomacy. --- East India Companies. --- Empire, Trade. --- Warfare. --- East India Company. --- Asia --- History