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Writing pirates : vernacular fiction and oceans in late Ming China
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ISBN: 0472902482 0472132547 9780472902484 9780472132546 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press,

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In Writing Pirates, Yuanfei Wang connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. In the late Ming dynasty, so-called "Japanese pirates" raided southeast coastal China. Hideyoshi invaded Korea. Europeans sailed for overseas territories, and Chinese maritime merchants and emigrants founded diaspora communities in Southeast Asia. Travel writings, histories, and fiction of the period jointly narrate pirates and China's Orient in maritime Asia. Wang shows that the late Ming discourses of pirates and the sea were fluid, ambivalent, and dialogical; they simultaneously entailed imperialistic and personal narratives of the "other": foreigners, renegades, migrants, and marginalized authors. At the center of the discourses, early modern concepts of empire, race, and authenticity were intensively negotiated. Connecting late Ming literature to the global maritime world, Writing Pirates expands current discussions of Chinese diaspora and debates on Sinophone language and identity.


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Bandits in Print : "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel
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Year: 2023 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizing force on literary texts; in particular circumstances and with particular genres, the print medium can be an agent of textual change.


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East Asian cartographic print culture : the late Ming publishing boom and its trans-regional connections
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ISBN: 9048550610 9048563569 9463726128 Year: 2021 Publisher: Amsterdam : London : Amsterdam University Press, Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),

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Alexander Akin examines how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic materials in East Asia. Focusing on mass-produced printed maps, this book investigates a series of path-breaking late 16th and early 17th century works in genres including geographical education, military affairs, and history, analysing how maps achieved unprecedented penetration among published materials, even in the absence of major theoretical or technological changes like those that transformed contemporary European cartography. By examining contemporaneous developments in neighboring Choson Korea and Japan, the study demonstrates the crucial importance of considering the broader East Asian sphere in this period as a network of communication and publication.


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Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644: Local Comparisons and Global Connections
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ISBN: 9789048526819 9048526817 9789089648334 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

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"This book examines the connected histories of Spain, China and Japan as they emerged and developed following the foundation of Manila as capital of the Spanish Philippines in 1571. Cross-cultural encounters not only shaped Manila's development as a "Eurasian" port city, but also had profound political, economic, and social ramifications for the three pre-modern states involved. This becomes obvious when looking into the diverse nature of long-distance trade, including trans-Pacific silver-for-silks bargaining, direct Sino-Japanese exchange, and provisions trade. In order not to overlook the role of human beings involved in proto-global struggles for power and foreign trade control, this volume combines a systematic comparison with a focus on different actors and their agency. The author offers an example of empirical global history based on multilingual primary source research and a critical evaluation of different historiographical traditions. Integrating Manila into world history helps in revising many long held misconceptions by replacing them with a more balanced, multi-faceted view"--Back cover.


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Bâtisseurs d'empires : Russie, Chine et Inde à la croisée des mondes XVe-XIXe siècle
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ISBN: 9782912107671 2912107679 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris: Raisons d'agir,

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Entre le XVIe et le XVIIIe siècle, trois parmi les plus grands Empires de l’époque moderne voient le jour ou se consolident en Russie, en Chine et en Inde (avec les Moghols). Cet ouvrage rend compte de cet essor sans précédent. Dans les steppes d’Asie centrale autant qu’en Inde, la lutte pour les chevaux est impitoyable ; leur alimentation et celle des hommes est toute aussi importante que la qualité des sabres. Au-delà, l’organisation militaire exige une discipline, une administration fiscale et un système de recrutement sans faille. En Inde, des guerriers ascètes combattent à côté de paysans affamés et des cavaliers rajputs ; dans les steppes d’Asie centrale, les cosaques déferlent à côté des cavaliers nomades ; en Chine enfin, des paysans han, des criminels ordinaires et des guerriers mandchous sont recrutés. Les relations entre paysans, seigneurs, soldats et administration dessinent une architecture complexe. Jusque vers le milieu du XVIIIe siècle, ces trois Empires sont parmi les plus puissants au monde et personne n’aurait misé sur la suprématie mondiale de l’Europe. Pourtant, un siècle plus tard, cette hiérarchie aura été complètement bouleversée. L’Occident domine la planète, mais pour combien de temps ? Alessandro Stanziani, auteur majeur du changement de perspective propre à l’histoire globale, explique dans ce livre les raisons, et les ressorts, de ce prodigieux retournement.


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Global History and New Polycentric Approaches : Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System
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ISBN: 9811040532 9811040524 9789811040535 Year: 2018 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its emergence in Asia with the rapid development of the Chinese economy motivation to legitimate the current uniqueness of the history and economy of the nation. It contributes to the revitalization of the field of global history in Chinese historiography, which have been dominated by national narratives and promotes a debate to open new venues in which important features such as scholarly mobility, diversity and internationalization are firmly rooted, putting aside national specificities. Dealing with new approaches on the use of empirical data by framing theproper questions and hypotheses and connecting western and eastern sources, this text opens a new forum of discussion on how global history has penetrated in western and eastern historiographies, moving the pivotal axis of analysis from national perspectives to open new venues of global history.

The Ming Dynasty: Its Origins and Evolving Institutions
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ISBN: 0892640340 0472901532 9780892640348 9780472901531 Year: 2020 Volume: 34 Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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In the latter half of the fourteenth century, at one end of the Eurasian continent, the stage was not yet set for the emergence of modern nation-states. At the other end, the Chinese drove out their Mongol overlords, inaugurated a new native dynasty called Ming (1368-1644), and reasserted the mastery of their national destiny. It was a dramatic era of change, the full significance of which can only be perceived retrospectively.With the establishment of the Ming dynasty, a major historical tension rose into prominence between more absolutist and less absolutist modes of rulership. This produced a distinctive style of rule that modern students have come to call Ming despotism. It proved a capriciously absolutist pattern for Chinese government into our own time.


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ASTER 20th Anniversary
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ISBN: 3039286854 3039286846 Year: 2020 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The Advanced Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is a research facility instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft. We celebrated the 20th anniversary of ASTER’s launch in December 1999. ASTER has been providing high spatial resolution multispectral data in the VNIR, SWIR, and TIR regions, and along-track stereo data. Starting April 2016, ASTER data have been distributed to the public at no cost. Another important and the most popular data set is the ASTER Global DEM, which covers almost the entire land surface at a 30 m grid size. ASTER data have been widely used in a variety of application areas such as land surface mapping and change detection, volcano and other natural hazard monitoring, mineral exploration, and urban heat island monitoring. This Special Issue consists of 12 papers (2 reviews, 9 articles, and 1 technical note) and covers topics including development of new techniques to process ASTER data, calibration activities to ensure long-term consistency of ASTER data, validation of the ASTER data products, and scientific achievements using ASTER data.


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Boundaries and Beyond: China's Maritime Southeast in Late Imperial Times
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ISBN: 9789814722445 9814722448 9814722014 9789814722018 Year: 2017 Publisher: NUS Press

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Using the concept of boundaries, physical and cultural, to understand the development of China’s maritime southeast in late Imperial times, these linked essays by a senior scholar challenge the usual readings of Chinese history from the centre. The book begins with the boundaries between “us” and “them”, Chinese and other, during this period, including the rise of state systems. It looks at the challenges to such demarcations posed by movements of people, goods and ideas across maritime East Asia and the broader Asian Seas, and builds a fresh understanding of China’s boundaries.Of interest to students of migration, of Chinese history, and of relations between China and its region, Ng’s analysis provides crucial background to understanding China within Asia’s maritime world. The result is a novel way of approaching Chinese history, argued from a fresh perspective on China’s relations with neighbouring territories, and of the nature of tradition and its persistence in a changing world.

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Merchant marine --- Maritime history --- History. --- China --- Commerce --- Foreign economic relations --- History --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- South China Sea --- Maritime History --- Fujian --- Guangzhou --- Junk (ship) --- Ming dynasty --- Portuguese people --- Qing dynasty --- Xiamen


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China and maritime Europe, 1500-1800
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ISBN: 1107215463 1139012290 1283015951 9786613015952 0511973608 113901160X 1139011863 1139011073 1139010808 1139011332 052143260X 0521179459 9780521179454 9780521432603 9781139011860 9780511973604 9781139011075 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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"China and maritime Europe, 1500-1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection"--Provided by publisher.

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Missions --- Christian missions --- Christianity --- Missions, Foreign --- Religion --- Theology, Practical --- Proselytizing --- History. --- Europe --- China --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Relations --- History --- Commerce --- History, Naval. --- Arts and Humanities --- Relations internationales --- Missions - China - History --- Europe - Relations - China --- China - Relations - Europe --- China - History - Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 --- China - History - Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 --- China - Commerce - Europe --- Europe - Commerce - China

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