China on the Sea
Biographical note
Zheng Yangwen is Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The Social Life of Opium in China, which has been translated into Italian and Korean. She is also the editor of Negotiating Asymmetry: China’s Place in Asia (with Anthony Reid); The Body in Asia (with Bryan S. Turner); Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity (with Charles J-H Macdonald); and The Cold War in Asia: the Battle for Hearts and Minds (with Hong Liu and Michael Szonyi).
Readership
All those interested in maritime China, European expansion in Asia, the Jesuits mission to Ming-Qing China , Chinese Diaspora to and China’s relationship with Southeast Asia.
Reviews
"A useful guide for others wanting to explore an understudied subject, the book offers much fascinating information buttressed with an excellent bibliography, including many works in Chinese. Zheng interposes many questions...nicely illustrating the extensive but ill-defined reach of maritime history."
J.C. Perry, Tufts University, Choice (July 2012)
"The author is to be lauded for having flagged both the importance of maritime trade to Qing China and the consequent boom in consumerism. It will be of interest mainly for historians of global economic and consumer history and of relations between China and Europe."
Joanna Waley-Cohen, New York University, The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 71, No. 4 (November 2012)
J.C. Perry, Tufts University, Choice (July 2012)
"The author is to be lauded for having flagged both the importance of maritime trade to Qing China and the consequent boom in consumerism. It will be of interest mainly for historians of global economic and consumer history and of relations between China and Europe."
Joanna Waley-Cohen, New York University, The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 71, No. 4 (November 2012)
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter One–Facing the Seas
Chapter Two–“Inconsistency of the Seas”
Chapter Three–Feeding China
Chapter Four–“Cette Merveilleuse Machine”
Chapter Five–“Les Palais Européens”
Chapter Six–“Wind of the West” [西洋风]
Chapter Seven–Pattern and Variation: Indigenisation
Chapter Eight–“Race for Oriental Opulence”
Conclusion
Chapter One–Facing the Seas
Chapter Two–“Inconsistency of the Seas”
Chapter Three–Feeding China
Chapter Four–“Cette Merveilleuse Machine”
Chapter Five–“Les Palais Européens”
Chapter Six–“Wind of the West” [西洋风]
Chapter Seven–Pattern and Variation: Indigenisation
Chapter Eight–“Race for Oriental Opulence”
Conclusion
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