Big history as commodity at Chinese universities: a study in circulation / David Pickus. Part III. Escaping from National Narratives: The New Global History in China and Japan: Global history, the role of scientific discovery and the 'needham question': Europe and China in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries / Colin Mackerras ; Encounter and coexistence: Portugal and Ming China 1511-1610: rethinking the dynamics of a century of global-local relations / Harriet Zurndorfer ; Challenging national narratives: on the origins of sweet potato in China as global commodity during the early modern period / Manuel Perez Garcia ; Economic depression and the silver question in nineteenth-century China / Richard von Glahn ; Kaiiki-Shi and world/ global history: a Japanese perspective / Hideaki Suzuki -- Part II. Trade Networks and Maritime Expansion in East Asian Studies: The structure and transformation of the Ming tribute trade system / Gakusho Nakajima ; The Nanban and Shuinsen trade in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Japan / Mihoko Oka ; The Jewish presence in China and Japan in the early modern period: a social representation / Lucio de Sousa ; Quantifying ocean currents as story models: global oceanic currents and their introduction to global navigation / Agnes Kneitz -- Part III. Circulation of Technology and Commodities in the Atlantic and Pacific: Global history and the history of consumption: congruence and divergence / Anne E.C. McCants ; Mexican cochineal, local technologies and the rise of global trade from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries / Carlos Marichal Salinas ; Social networks and the circulation of technology and knowledge in the global Spanish empire / Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla ; Global commodities in early modern Spain / Nadia Fernández-de-Pinedo ; Big history as commodity at Chinese universities: a study in circulation / David Pickus.
Summary:
Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries, this collection 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 European, and its emergence in East Asia. It contributes to the revitalization of the field of global history in Chinese and Japanese historiographies, which has been dominated by national narratives. 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 global history.
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