China on the Sea
How the Maritime World Shaped Modern China
by Zheng Yangwen
362 pages· 2011· ISBN 9789004194779
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This volume challenges the “Walled Kingdom” perspective. China reached out to the seas far more actively than historians have allowed, while the maritime world shaped China, Qing China in particular, much more than the continental world. It gave birth to and defined Chinese modernity.
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