Author | : Ma-Huan |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1970-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521010320 |
Author | : Ma-Huan |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1970-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521010320 |
Author | : Edward L. Dreyer |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780321084439 |
This new biography, part of Longman's World Biography series, of the Chinese explorer Zheng He sheds new light on one of the most important "what if" questions of early modern history: why a technically advanced China did not follow the same path of development as the major European powers. Written by China scholar Edward L. Dreyer, Zheng He outlines what is known of the eunuch Zheng He's life and describes and analyzes the early 15th century voyages on the basis of the Chinese evidence. Locating the voyages firmly within the context of early Ming history,itaddresses the political motives of Zheng He's voyages and how they affected China's exclusive attitude to the outside world in subsequent centuries.
Author | : Peter C. Mancall |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195155971 |
This is a primary source collection of narratives about the travel and discovery in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 16th century.
Author | : Xin Fei |
Publisher | : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : 9783447037983 |
Author | : Willem Pieter Groeneveldt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Chinese |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Endymion Porter Wilkinson |
Publisher | : Harvard Univ Asia Center |
Total Pages | : 1220 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674002494 |
Endymion Wilkinson's bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. In this latest edition, now in a bigger format, its scope has been dramatically enlarged by the addition of one million words of new text. Twelve years in the making, the new manual introduces students to different types of transmitted, excavated, and artifactual sources from prehistory to the twentieth century. It also examines the context in which the sources were produced, preserved, and received, the problems of research and interpretation associated with them, and the best, most up-to-date secondary works. Because the writing of history has always played a central role in Chinese politics and culture, special attention is devoted to the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese historiography.
Author | : David Abulafia |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1115 |
Release | : 2019-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190933135 |
From the beginning of history to the present, a sweep of the world's oceans and seas and how they have shaped the course of civilization. From the author of the acclaimed The Great Sea, ("Magnificent . . . radiates scholarship and a sense of wonder and fun," Simon Sebag Montefiore; Book of the Year, The Economist), David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans--the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian--which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed, evolving from local exploration to lines of regional communication and commerce and eventually to major arteries. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and of course people--free and enslaved--across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Far more than merely another history of exploration, The Boundless Sea shows how maritime networks gradually formed a continuum of interaction and interconnection. Working chronologically, Abulafia moves from the earliest forays of peoples taking hand-hewn canoes into uncharted waters, to the routes taken daily by supertankers in the thousands. History on the grandest scale and scope, written with passion and precision, this is a project few could have undertaken. Abulafia, whom The Atlantic calls "superb writer with a gift for lucid compression and an eye for the telling detail," proves again why he ranks as one of the world's greatest storytellers.
Author | : Frederic E. Wakeman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2009-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520256069 |
"Frederic Wakeman's scholarship is impeccable and the breadth of learning in this book is astounding. I repeatedly found myself slowing down to savor the material. Many of the essays in this collection are no longer easily accessible, and placing them together in a single volume will be a great benefit to the next generation of students and scholars. "—Joseph W. Esherick, author of The Origins of the Boxer Uprising "This book brings together the best of Frederic Wakeman's articles, all of which are beautifully written and represent the remarkable breadth of Wakeman's research. The opportunity to read them together sheds new light on Chinese history and on the thought processes of one of the West's greatest historians."—Madeleine Zelin, Director of the East Asian National Resource Center at Columbia University
Author | : Xueqi Cheng |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9811068054 |
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 6th National Conference of Social Media Processing, SMP 2017, held in Beijing, China, in September 2017. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. The papers address issues such as: knowledge discovery for data; natural language processing; text mining and sentiment analysis; social network analysis and social computing.