China in World History, Third Edition

by Adshead, Samuel Adrian M.

• ISBN13: 9780312225650
• ISBN10: 0312225652
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 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.

Author Biography

S. A. M. Adshead is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	ix
Introduction	xvii
World Apart: China in Antiquity, 200 BC to 400 AD	1	(53)
China's place in the world, 200 BC to 400 AD	4	(17)
Avenues of contact 200 BC to 400 AD	21	(12)
Interchanges, 200 BC to 400 AD	33	(14)
World institutions 200 BC to 400 AD	47	(7)
World Centre: China in Late Antiquity, 400 to 1000	54	(55)
China's place in the world, 400 to 1000	54	(18)
Avenues of contact, 400 to 1000	72	(12)
Interchanges, 400 to 1000	84	(18)
World institutions, 400 to 1000	102	(7)
World Axis: China in the Middle Ages, 1000 to 1350	109	(64)
China's place in the world 1000 to 1350	110	(16)
Avenues of contact, 1000 to 1350	126	(16)
Interchanges, 1000 to 1350	142	(23)
World institutions, 1000 to 1350	165	(8)
World Horizon: China in the Renaissance, 1350 to 1650	173	(70)
China's place in the world, 1350 to 1650	174	(20)
Avenues of contact, 1350 to 1650	194	(15)
Interchanges, 1350 to 1650	209	(25)
World institutions, 1350 to 1650	234	(9)
World Within a World: China in the Enlightenment, 1650 to 1833	243	(67)
China's place in the world, 1650 to 1833	244	(20)
Avenues of contact, 1650 to 1833	264	(15)
Interchanges, 1650 to 1833	279	(20)
World institutions, 1650 to 1833	299	(11)
Between Two Worlds: China in the Modern Age, 1833 to 1976	310	(77)
China's place in the world, 1833 to 1976	311	(23)
Avenues of contact, 1833 to 1976	334	(20)
Interchanges, 1833 to 1976	354	(25)
World institutions, 1833 to 1976	379	(8)
Postscript	387	(10)
Notes	397	(16)
Bibliography	413	(12)
Index	425