China in world history / S.A.M. Adshead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adshead, Samuel Adrian M. (Samuel Adrian Miles)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Relations.

China.

Relations.

Physical Description:

xviii, 434 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills [England] : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

This new edition provides a new preface to this highly popular book. The theme of the book is China's relations with the non-Chinese world, not only political and economic, but cultural, social and technological as well. It seeks to show that China's history is part of everyone's history. In particular it traces China's relationship since the thirteenth century to the emergent world order and various world institutions of which that order is comprised. Each chapter discusses China's comparative place in the world, the avenues of contact between China and other civilizations, and who and what passed along these channels.

Contents:

1. World Apart: China in Antiquity, 200 B.C to 400 A.D. China's place in the world, 200 B.C. to 400 A.D. Avenues of contact 200 B.C. to 400 A.D. Interchanges, 200 B.C. to 400 A.D. World institutions 200 B.C. to 400 A.D.

2. World Centre: China in Late Antiquity, 400 to 1000. China's place in the world, 400 to 1000. Avenues of contact, 400 to 1000. Interchanges, 400 to 1000. World institutions, 400 to 1000

3. World Axis: China in the Middle Ages, 1000 to 1350. China's place in the world, 1000 to 1350. Avenues of contact, 1000 to 1350. Interchanges, 1000 to 1350. World institutions, 1000 to 1350

4. World Horizon: China in the Renaissance, 1350 to 1650. China's place in the world, 1350 to 1650. Avenues of contact, 1350 to 1650. Interchanges, 1350 to 1650. World institutions, 1350 to 1650

5. World Within a World: China in the Enlightenment, 1650 to 1833. China's place in the world, 1650 to 1833. Avenues of contact, 1650 to 1833. Interchanges, 1650 to 1833. World institutions, 1650 to 1833

6. Between Two Worlds: China in the Modern Age, 1833 to 1976. China's place in the world, 1833 to 1976. Avenues of contact, 1833 to 1976. Interchanges, 1833 to 1976. World institutions, 1833 to 1976

7. Postscript.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-424) and index.

ISBN:

0333778308

0333778316

0312225652

OCLC:

122960964