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This book explores the dissemination of ideas and information on the early silk roads between Europe and China, through the first detailed study of the Sinicization of foreign objects in Chinese poetic writing of the third century CE.00Third-century literary developments and the prevailing literary works from that era leave us with an impressive amount of information concerning exotic objects, such as plants, animals, and crafts, and record the cultural exchange between distant peoples whose goods, ideas, and technologies entered China.00These hitherto-forgotten rhapsodies express the profound interest and excitement of learned men for foreign objects. They bear witness to the cultural exchanges between China and other civilizations and provide a more nuanced insight of early medieval China as an integrated society rather than an isolated one.

Chinese poetry. --- Poesie chinoise --- Chinese poetry --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- Chinese literature --- Yongwu fu, exotica, Silk Roads, material culture, cultural exchange, third century.

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Studying change in the course of human history, in different places, through the lens of a diverse set of core themes, World History for International Studies offers readers a set of windows into different debates historians have been conducting. Key themes, such as communication, trade, order, slavery, religion, war, identity, modernity, norms and ecology, are linked to specific world regions, which tell a story about how local ideas and individual contacts developed, started to overlap and became globally understood and used by ever larger groups of people. These themes are brought to life by a diverse set of key primary sources, such as a book, a letter, a medal, a temple and an epic, to showcase how historians have used sources to tell these stories and conduct debates. The book provides an introductory resource into the study of history and includes detailed suggestions for further study.

General & world history --- History: theory & methods --- History: earliest times to present day --- History of Communication, Silk Roads, Political Order, Slavery and Race, History and Religion, War, Identity, Modernity, Human Rights, Ecology --- History of Communication, Silk Roads, Political Order, Slavery and Race, History and Religion, War, Identity, Modernity, Human Rights, Ecology

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Studying change in the course of human history, in different places, through the lens of a diverse set of core themes, World History for International Studies offers readers a set of windows into different debates historians have been conducting. Key themes, such as communication, trade, order, slavery, religion, war, identity, modernity, norms and ecology, are linked to specific world regions, which tell a story about how local ideas and individual contacts developed, started to overlap and became globally understood and used by ever larger groups of people. These themes are brought to life by a diverse set of key primary sources, such as a book, a letter, a medal, a temple and an epic, to showcase how historians have used sources to tell these stories and conduct debates. The book provides an introductory resource into the study of history and includes detailed suggestions for further study.

General & world history --- History: theory & methods --- History: earliest times to present day --- History of Communication, Silk Roads, Political Order, Slavery and Race, History and Religion, War, Identity, Modernity, Human Rights, Ecology

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The open access book provides an analysis of human actors and their capacity to explore and conceptualise their own agency by being curious, gathering knowledge, and shaping identities in their travel reflections on Asia. Thus, the actors open windows across time to present a profound overview of diverse descriptions and constructions of Asia. The authors demonstrate that international and transnational history contributes to and benefits from analyses of national and local contexts that in turn enrich our understanding of transcultural encounters and experiences across time. The book proposes an actor-centred contextual approach to travel writing to recount meaningful constructions of Asia’s physical, political and spiritual landscapes. It offers comparative reflections on the patterns of encounter across Eurasia, where from the late medieval period an idea of civilisation was transculturally shared yet also constantly questioned and reframed. Tailored for academic and public discussions alike, this volume will be invaluable for both scholars of Global History and interested audiences to stimulate further discussions on the nature of global encounters in Asia. Christian Mueller is Associate Professor in European and International History, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Matteo Salonia is Assistant Professor in European and International History, University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

Asian history --- General & world history --- Archaeology --- Human geography --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- travel writing --- Asian networks --- Silk Roads --- Eurasian encounters --- intellectual history --- borders and identities --- curiosity in global history --- knowledge and Empire --- transnational culture --- transnational history --- imperial geographies --- imperial mobilities --- early globalisation --- ethnography and peripheries --- Asia—History. --- World history. --- Archaeology. --- Human geography. --- Cultural geography. --- Ethnology. --- Asian History. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- Social and Cultural Geography. --- Sociocultural Anthropology. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Archeology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Universal history