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Book Sino Mongol relations during the Ming  II  The tribute system and diplomatic missions  1400 1600

Download or read book Sino Mongol relations during the Ming II The tribute system and diplomatic missions 1400 1600 written by György Kara and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rec. książki: Sino-Mongol relations during the Ming. 2, Tribute system and diplomatic missions (1400-1600) / Henry Serruys. - Bruxelles, 1967.

Book Sino Mongol Relations During the Ming

Download or read book Sino Mongol Relations During the Ming written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sino Mongol Relations During the Ming  II  the Tribute System and Diplomatic Missions  1400 1600

Download or read book Sino Mongol Relations During the Ming II the Tribute System and Diplomatic Missions 1400 1600 written by H. Serruys and published by Peeters Pub & Booksellers. This book was released on 1967-01-01 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Peeters 1967)

Book Sino Mongol Relations During the Ming

Download or read book Sino Mongol Relations During the Ming written by Henry Serruys and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tribute System and Diplomatic Missions  1400 1600

Download or read book The Tribute System and Diplomatic Missions 1400 1600 written by Henry Serruys and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Manchu Mongol Relations on the Eve of the Qing Conquest

Download or read book Manchu Mongol Relations on the Eve of the Qing Conquest written by Nicola Di Cosmo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century the Manchu conquered the whole of China, replacing the Ming dynasty. The original Manchu and Mongol documents selected for the this publication, translated and amply annotated, provide fascinating new information about the relations between Manchus and Mongols before the Manchu conquest of China. They include diplomatic correspondence, military liaisons, legal cases, and records of tribute missions and present a detailed picture of the relative position of the various Mongol tribes vis-à-vis the future emperors of China.

Book Ming China and its Allies

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  • Author : David M. Robinson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-02
  • ISBN : 1108489222
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Ming China and its Allies written by David M. Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Ming Dynasty's foreign relations with neighboring sovereigns, placing China in a wider global context.

Book The Persian Album  1400 1600

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  • Author : David J. Roxburgh
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300103250
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book The Persian Album 1400 1600 written by David J. Roxburgh and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book examines portable art collections assembled in the courts of Greater Iran in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Made for members of the royal families or ruling elites, albums were created to preserve and display art, yet they were conceptualized in different ways. David Roxburgh, a leading expert on Persian albums and the art of the book, discusses this diversity and demonstrates convincingly that to look at the practice of album making is to open a vista to a culture of thought about the Persian art tradition. The book considers the album’s formal and physical properties, assembly, and content, as well as the viewer’s experience. Focusing on seven albums created during the Timurid and Safavid dynasties, Roxburgh reconstructs the history and development of this codex form and uses the works of art to explore notions of how art and aesthetics were conceived in Persian court culture. Generously illustrated with over 175 images, many rare and previously unpublished, the book offers a range of new insights into Persian visual culture as well as Islamic art history.

Book China Among Equals

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  • Author : Morris Rossabi
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520341724
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book China Among Equals written by Morris Rossabi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century B.C. to the nineteenth century. China ruled out equality with any nation: foreign rulers and their envoys were treated as subordinates or inferiors, required to send periodic tribute embassies to the Chinese emperor. The Chinese court was otherwise uninterested in foreign lands. Its principal interests were to maintain peace with what it perceived to be barbarian neighbors and to coax or coerce them into admitting China's superiority and accepting the Chinese emperor as the Son of Heaven. But Chinese foreign policy was not monolithic. Court officials in traditional times were much more realistic and pragmatic than is commonly assumed. They did not scorn foreign trade, nor were ignorant of foreign lands. Challenging the accepted view of Chinese foreign relations, the authors of China among Equals contribute to a clearer assessment of Chinese foreign relations and policy. From the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, China did not dogmatically enforce its own world order. Chinese were eager for foreign trade and knowledgeable about their neighbors. The Sung (960-1279), the principal dynasty during that era, was flexible in its dealings with foreigners. Its officials recognized the military and political weakness of the dynasty, and in general they adopted a realistic and pragmatic foreign policy. They were compelled to accept foreign states as equals, and the relations between China and other states were defined by diplomatic parity.

Book Asian Frontier Nationalism

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  • Author : James Cotton
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780719025853
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Asian Frontier Nationalism written by James Cotton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harmony and War

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  • Author : Yuan-kang Wang
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2010-12-15
  • ISBN : 0231522401
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Harmony and War written by Yuan-kang Wang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many believe China is antimilitary and reluctant to use force against its enemies. It practices pacifism and refrains from expanding its boundaries, even when nationally strong. In a path-breaking study traversing six centuries of Chinese history, Yuan-kang Wang resoundingly discredits this notion, recasting China as a practitioner of realpolitik and a ruthless purveyor of expansive grand strategies. Leaders of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) prized military force and shrewdly assessed the capabilities of China's adversaries. They adopted defensive strategies when their country was weak and pursued expansive goals, such as territorial acquisition, enemy destruction, and total military victory, when their country was strong. Despite the dominance of an antimilitarist Confucian culture, warfare was not uncommon in the bulk of Chinese history. Grounding his research in primary Chinese sources, Wang outlines a politics of power that are crucial to understanding China's strategies today, especially its policy of "peaceful development," which, he argues, the nation has adopted mainly because of its military, economic, and technological weakness in relation to the United States.

Book China   s Silk Trade

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  • Author : Lillian M. Li
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2020-03-17
  • ISBN : 1684172314
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book China s Silk Trade written by Lillian M. Li and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the products associated with the material wealth and cultural splendor of traditional Chinese civilization, none was so quintessentially Chinese as silk. From the most ancient times silk played a role in Chinese history, both as a symbol of imperial tradition and as a mainstay of the peasant economy. This study analyzes the development of China's silk industry in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Book The Taiji Government and the Rise of the Warrior State

Download or read book The Taiji Government and the Rise of the Warrior State written by Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a radically new interpretation of the political makeup of the Qing Empire, grounded on extensive examination of the Mongolian and Manchu sources.

Book The Spread of Buddhism

Download or read book The Spread of Buddhism written by Ann Heirman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unravels some of the complex factors that allowed or hampered the presence of (certain aspects of) Buddhism in the regions to the north and the east of India, such as Central Asia, China, Tibet, Mongolia, or Korea.

Book Prisoners from Nambu

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  • Author : Reinier H. Hesselink
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2001-07-31
  • ISBN : 0824864026
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Prisoners from Nambu written by Reinier H. Hesselink and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 29, 1643, ten crew members of the Dutch yacht Breskens were lured ashore at Nambu in northern Japan. Once out of view of their ship, the men were bound and taken to the shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, in Edo, where they remained imprisoned for four months. Later the Japanese government forced the Dutch East India Company representative in Nagasaki to acknowledge that the sailors had in fact been saved from shipwreck and that official recognition of the rescue (i.e., a formal visit from a Dutch ambassador) was in order. Prisoners from Nambu provides a lively, engrossing narrative of this relatively obscure incident, while casting light on the history of the period as a whole. Expertly constructing his tale from primary sources, the author examines relations between the Dutch East India Company and the shogunal government immediately following the promulgation of the "seclusion laws" (sakokurei) and anti-Christian campaigns.

Book Towards Social Stability and Democratic Governance in Central Eurasia

Download or read book Towards Social Stability and Democratic Governance in Central Eurasia written by I. Morozova and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through invasions, migrations, trade and cultural exchange, developments in Central Eurasia have, for millennia, impacted upon the history of both Europe and Asia. For the last three hundred years, Central Eurasia has been the stage upon which great empires clashed. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Central Eurasia has once again emerged as a region of geo-political concern with various new international actors involved: the USA, international monetary organizations, strategic alliances, TNCs, NGOs, regional blocks, as well as criminal groups and ethno-religious movements. The new ‘centrality’ of Central Eurasia brings new security threats to the region’s population, to Europe and to the rest of the world. Repressive political regimes and marginalization of whole groups of the population inflame conflicts that spill across national borders. Migration to Europe, both legal and illegal, the illicit production and trade of drugs are the direct outcome of social-economic destabilization in Central Eurasia. Territorial disputes, border conflicts and competition for resources among the Central Eurasian ethnicities have become the unfortunate reality. Post-Soviet Central Eurasia, as a direct neighbor to the turbulent Middle East, is a potential playground for extremist movements: radical Islamic groups and terrorist organizations. The contributors to this book, coming from various theoretical schools and presenting innovative interdisciplinary approaches, provide their views on the socio-political challenges confronting the nine Central Eurasian states - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The book presents scientific discussions on the historical development of Central Eurasia and its socio-cultural legacies; Soviet and contemporary state organization, social transformation and communal structures; the current economic conditions as a precursor to social stability and development; and geo-political arrangements and political changes over the last two decades.