Yiwen Li (City University of Hong Kong)

Networks of Faith and Profit

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Produktbeschreibung

Debunks long-held assumptions regarding the lack of contact between China and Japan between 839-1403 CE, arguing that a vibrant Sino-Japanese trade network flourished in this period as Buddhist monks and merchants fostered connections across maritime East Asia. Examination of Buddhist records, objects and images illuminates how this system worked.

Produktdetails

• Asian Connections
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781009303101
• ISBN-10: 1009303104
• Artikelnr.: 67160763

Autorenporträt

Yiwen Li teaches history and cultural heritage at City University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Buddhist trade networks in East Asia; 2. Replacing tributary relations: the reciprocal collaboration between monks and merchants, 839
900; 3. Not only for the dharma: pilgrim monks as intermediaries between China and Japan, 900
1100; 4. Building a Base for Trade: the 'Chinese quarter' in Hakata, 1100
1200; 5. Transporting goods and faith: the economic privileges of the religious network, 1200
1270; 6. Sending ships to China to finance monastery construction: trade between the Mongol empire and the Japanese archipelago, 1270
1368; 7. Resuming tribute relations and the aftermath of the religio-commercial network, 1368
1403.