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Tributary system (China) --- Mongolia --- China
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Tributary system (China). --- Mongolia --- China --- History. --- History
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Tributary system (China) --- China --- Chine --- Foreign relations. --- Relations extérieures
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Diplomatic relations. --- Système tributaire (Chine) --- Tributary system (China) --- Tributary system (China) --- Huang ming wai yi chao gong kao. --- 1644-1912 --- China --- China. --- Chine --- Foreign relations --- Relations extérieures
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Tributary system (China) --- Système tributaire (Chine) --- Cheval --- Relations extérieures --- Commercialisation --- Histoire. --- Mongolia --- China --- Mongolie --- Chine --- History. --- History
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An exciting and richly detailed new history of the Silk Road that tells how it became more important as a route for diplomacy than for tradeThe King’s Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one. Tracing the arduous journeys of diplomatic envoys, Xin Wen presents a rich social history of long-distance travel that played out in deserts, post stations, palaces, and polo fields. The book tells the story of the everyday lives of diplomatic travelers on the Silk Road—what they ate and drank, the gifts they carried, and the animals that accompanied them—and how they navigated a complex web of geographic, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. It also describes the risks and dangers envoys faced along the way—from financial catastrophe to robbery and murder.Using documents unearthed from the famous Dunhuang “library cave” in Western China, The King’s Road paints a detailed picture of the intricate network of trans-Eurasian transportation and communication routes that was established between 850 and 1000 CE. By exploring the motivations of the kings who dispatched envoys along the Silk Road and describing the transformative social and economic effects of their journeys, the book reveals the inner workings of an interstate network distinct from the Sino-centric “tributary” system.In shifting the narrative of the Silk Road from the transport of commodities to the exchange of diplomatic gifts and personnel, The King’s Road puts the history of Eastern Eurasia in a new light.
Silk Road --- Diplomats --- History. --- Travel. --- Asia --- Europe --- Relations --- Statesmen --- Central Asia. --- China. --- Chinese History. --- Dunhuang. --- Khotan. --- Silk Road. --- Song Dynasty. --- Tang Dynasty. --- diplomacy. --- envoys. --- kingship. --- the Hexi Corridor. --- the Tributary System. --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- Asia. --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Travel
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Lord Amherst's diplomatic mission to the Qing Court in 1816 was the second British embassy to China. The first led by Lord Macartney in 1793 had failed to achieve its goals. It was thought that Amherst had better prospects of success, but the intense diplomatic encounter that greeted his arrival ended badly. Amherst never appeared before the Jiaqing emperor and his embassy was expelled from Peking on the day it arrived. Historians have blamed Amherst for this outcome, citing his over-reliance on the advice of his Second Commissioner, Sir George Thomas Staunton, not to kowtow before the emperor. Detailed analysis of British sources reveal that Amherst was well informed on the kowtow issue and made his own decision for which he took full responsibility. Success was always unlikely because of irreconcilable differences in approach. China’s conduct of foreign relations based on the tributary system required submission to the emperor, thus relegating all foreign emissaries and the rulers they represented to vassal status, whereas British diplomatic practice was centred on negotiation and Westphalian principles of equality between nations. The Amherst embassy’s failure revised British assessments of China and led some observers to believe that force, rather than diplomacy, might be required in future to achieve British goals. The Opium War of 1840 that followed set a precedent for foreign interference in China, resulting in a century of 'humiliation’. This resonates today in President Xi Jinping’s call for ‘National Rejuvenation’ to restore China’s historic place at the centre of a new Sino-centric global order.
British & Irish history --- Asian history --- Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 --- China --- Britain --- British Empire --- William Pitt --- Amherst --- Canton --- Kowtow --- tributary system --- Amherst of Arracan, William Pitt Amherst, --- Jiaqing, --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations --- History --- Chia-chʻing, --- Chʻing Jen-tsung, --- Qing Renzong, --- Aixinjueluo, Yongyan, --- Yongyan, --- Yung-yen, --- 嘉庆, --- 嘉慶, --- 清仁宗, --- 爱新觉罗・颙琰, --- 爱新觉罗・永琰, --- 颙琰, --- 永琰, --- Amherst, --- Amherst of Arakan, --- Amherst of Arakan, William Pitt Amherst, --- Amherst of Arracan, --- Amherst, William Pitt Amherst, --- Holmesdale, --- Viscount Holmesdale,
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Ultimately, Justice in a New World offers both a deeper understanding of the transformation of notions of justice and law among settlers and indigenous people, and a dual comparative study of what it means for laws and moral codes to be legally intelligible. Europeans and natives appealed to imperfect understandings of their interlocutors' notions of justice and advanced their own conceptions during workaday negotiations, disputes, and assertions of right. Settlers' and indigenous peoples' legal presuppositions shaped and sometimes misdirected their attempts to employ each other's law. Natives and settlers construed and misconstrued each other's legal commitments while learning about them, never quite sure whether they were on solid ground. Chapters explore the problem of "legal intelligibility": How and to what extent did settler law and its associated notions of justice became intelligible--tactically, technically and morally--to natives, and vice versa? To address this question, the volume offers a critical comparison between English and Iberian New World empires. Chapters probe such topics as treaty negotiations, land sales, and the corporate privileges of indigenous peoples. . A historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New WorldAs British and Iberian empires expanded across the New World, differing notions of justice and legality played out against one another as settlers and indigenous people sought to negotiate their relationship. In order for settlers and natives to learn from, maneuver, resist, or accommodate each other, they had to grasp something of each other's legal ideas and conceptions of justice.This ambitious volume advances our understanding of how natives and settlers in both the British and Iberian New World empires struggled to use the other's ideas of law and justice as a political, strategic, and moral resource. In so doing, indigenous people and settlers alike changed their own practices of law and dialogue about justice. .
Indians --- Colonies --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History. --- Law and legislation. --- United States --- Amazon basin. --- Andean litigants. --- Bacon’s Rebellion. --- British settlers. --- Cockacoeske. --- Columbian elites. --- English justice. --- English law. --- Iberian New World. --- Indian law. --- Indian rights. --- Iroquois. --- John Wompas. --- Latin America. --- Nipmuc. --- Portuguese colonists. --- Spanish colonization. --- Spanish law. --- Spanish policy. --- Virginia House of Burgesses. --- Virginia law. --- agricultural leases. --- autonomy. --- blood feud. --- colonial discourse. --- colonial rule. --- communal rights. --- community identities. --- conversion. --- corporate autonomy. --- empire. --- ground law. --- historical actors. --- imperial legalities. --- indigenous groups. --- indigenous litigants. --- indigenous peoples. --- jurisdiction. --- justice. --- land rights. --- land transactions. --- legal concepts. --- legal contest. --- legal practices. --- legal structures. --- legal system. --- legal systems. --- liberal elites. --- local alliances. --- queen of Pamunkey. --- rhetorical traditions. --- sovereignty. --- strategic behavior. --- treaty negotiations. --- tributary system. --- vassalage.
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