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04744aam a2200541 i 4500 001 E2697808488C11EE9762855E3EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230901010039 008 211012t20222022cauabf b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2021050071 020 $a 1503627470 020 $a 9781503627475 035 $a (OCoLC)1261879774 040 $a STF $b eng $e rda $c STF $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d TOH $d GL4 $d QX7 $d DLC $d VP@ $d JQM $d IL4J6 $d GSU $d OCLCO $d MUU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 050 00 $a DS753 $b .A35 2022 082 00 $a 951/.026 $2 23/eng/20211013 100 1 $a Akhtar, Ali Humayun, $e author. 245 10 $a 1368 : $b China and the making of the modern world / $c Ali Humayun Akhtar. 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xii, 208 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Five hundred years across the Indian Ocean and South China Sea -- Global Beijing under the Great Ming -- Picturing China in Persian along the silk routes -- Trading with China in Malay along the spice routes -- Europe's search for the Spice Islands -- A Sino-Jesuit tradition of science and mapmaking -- Porcelain across the Dutch Empire -- Tea across the British Empire -- China's eclipse and Japan's modernization -- Epilogue : a new turn to the East. 520 $a "With the goal of understanding China's future in a changing international landscape, this book offers a new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. In 1368, Ali Humayun Akhtar maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of European mariners and the shock of the Opium Wars. In Akhtar's new picture of world history, China's current rise evokes an earlier epoch, one that sheds light on where Beijing is heading today. Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe palaces of silk and jade in Beijing's Forbidden City. Malay legends recount stories of Chinese princesses in Melaka with gifts of porcelain and gold. During Europe's Age of Exploration, Iberian mariners charted new passages to China that the Dutch and British East India Companies transformed into lucrative tea routes. Among the ships' passengers were Italian Jesuits, whose linguistic skills facilitated book projects with local mapmakers and botanists published in Amsterdam. But there was a shift during the British Industrial Revolution, one that pointed to Europe's high-tech future. Across the British Empire, the rise of steam engines and factories allowed the export of the very commodities once imported from China. By the end of the Opium Wars and the arrival of Commodore Perry in Japan, Chinese and Japanese reformers called for their own industrial revolutions, one that would accelerate in the twentieth century. What has the world learned from China since the Ming, and how did China reemerge in the 1970s as a manufacturing superpower? Akhtar's book provides much-needed context for understanding China's rise today and the future of its connections with the West and a resurgent Asia"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a China $x History $y Ming dynasty, 1368-1644. 651 0 $a China $x History $y Qing dynasty, 1644-1912. 651 0 $a China $x History. $x History. 651 0 $a China $x Foreign relations. 651 6 $a Chine $x Histoire $y 1368-1644 (Dynastie des Ming) 651 6 $a Chine $x Histoire $y 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing) 651 6 $a Chine $x Relations extérieures. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Asia / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Commerce. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00869279 650 7 $a Diplomatic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01907412 650 7 $a Qing Dynasty (China) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01696773 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 651 7 $a China $x History $y Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 $2 nli 651 7 $a China $x History $y Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 $2 nli 651 7 $a China $x History $x History $2 nli 651 7 $a China $x Foreign relations $2 nli 648 7 $a 1368-1912 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Akhtar, Ali Humayun. $t 1368. $d Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022] $z 9781503631519 $w (OCoLC)1276804710 $w (OCoLC)1276804710 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20230901010232.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E2697808488C11EE9762855E3EECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search