China in World History

Description

This new edition provides a new preface to this highly popular book. The theme of the book is China's relations with the non-Chinese world, not only political and economic, but cultural, social and technological as well. It seeks to show that China's history is part of everyone's history. In particular it traces China's relationship since the thirteenth century to the emergent world order and the various world institutions of which that order is comprised. Each chapter discusses China's comparative place in the world, the avenues of contact between China and other civilizations, and who and what passed along these channels. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii World Apart: China in Antiquity, 200 BC to 400 AD....Pages 1-53 World Centre: China in Late Antiquity, 400 to 1000....Pages 54-108 World Axis: China in the Middle Ages, 1000 to 1350....Pages 109-172 World Horizon: China in the Renaissance, 1350 to 1650....Pages 173-242 World Within a World: China in the Enlightenment, 1650 to 1833....Pages 243-309 Between Two Worlds: China in the Modern Age, 1833 to 1976....Pages 310-386 Postscript....Pages 387-396 Back Matter....Pages 397-434