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The Asian Mediterranean : port cities and trading networks in China, Japan and South Asia, 13th-21st century / edited by François Gipouloux.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Merchant marine--China--History.
- Merchant marine.
- International economic relations.
- Commerce.
- History.
- China.
- Merchant marine--Japan--History.
- Japan.
- Merchant marine--South Asia--History.
- China--Commerce--History.
- Japan--Commerce--History.
- South Asia--Commerce--History.
- South Asia.
- China--Foreign economic relations.
- Japan--Foreign economic relations.
- South Asia--Foreign economic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 407 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2011]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Having spent nearly 20 years in China and Japan researching all the major ports of the Asian Pacific coast, Gipouloux (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France) compares the great continental empire of 21st-century China to the maritime European city-states in the late Middle Ages. Despite initial appearances, he says, the two have enough in common to make their differences significant, in particular, production for non-contiguous markets within a common legal framework. From the 11th to the 15th century, China was a major maritime power, he says, and the radical changes taking place there now can be seen as a gradual shift away from a continental perspective to a rediscovered maritime vocation similar to the Medieval Mediterranean. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: The Asian Mediterranean.
- ISBN:
- 0857934279
- 9780857934277
- Publisher Number:
- 99946361199
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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