Xing Hang

Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A major new interpretation of the Zheng family of merchants and militarists, who dominated the seventeenth-century China Seas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781107558458
• ISBN-10: 110755845X
• Artikelnr.: 48029997

Autorenporträt

Xing Hang currently teaches at Brandeis University, Massachusetts. He is the author of the Encyclopedia of National Anthems (2011) and co-editor of Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550¿1700 (with Tonio Andrade, 2016). He has also written numerous articles and reviews for major journals, and is a recipient of many grants and awards, including the American Council of Learned Societies Henry Luce Fellowship and the Michael L. Walzer Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Setting the stage
2. From smuggler-pirates to loyal Confucians
3. Between trade and legitimacy
4. Brave new world
5. The Zheng state on Taiwan
6. The lure of 'China'
7. A contingent destruction
8. Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.