TY  - GEN
T1  - Writing world history in late Ming China and the perception of maritime Asia
T2  - East Asian economic and socio-cultural studies. East Asian maritime history ;
A1  - Papelitzky, Elke
LA  - English
PP  - Wiesbaden
PB  - Harrassowitz Verlag
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1163555768
AB  - "The last century of China's Ming dynasty (1368-1644) saw many troubles and challenges from abroad. Pirates raided the coast, Europeans challenged the traditional world order of the tribute system, and the everlasting threat from the northern steppe people continued to raise concerns for the state. This climate of uncertainty resulted in many Ming literati discussing foreign countries. During the last decades of the Ming, seven authors wrote monographs that can be considered a form of early Chinese 'world history.' The authors describe the geography, the history, and the political systems of foreign countries and regions ranging from China's close neighbors Japan and Mongolia to more distant lands such as Mogadishu and Europe. This books by Elke Papelitzky studies each of the seven author's knowledge and perception of the world and focuses especially on the countries connected with China at the maritime border: Siam, Malacca, and Portugal, combining a close textual and paratextual analysis with a biographical study to understand why the authors wrote the texts the way they did. This is the first comprehensive introduction to these texts contributing to an understanding of late Ming historiography as well as the perception of foreign countries by late Ming scholars."--
OP  - 240
CN  - D13.5.C6
SN  - 9783447199230
SN  - 3447199237
SN  - 9783447113090
SN  - 344711309X
KW  - Historiography : China : History.
KW  - Historians : China.
KW  - China : History : Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 : Historiography.
KW  - Historiographie : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Historians
KW  - Historiography
KW  - China
KW  - 1368-1644
KW  - History
ER  -