02534nam a22004218i 4500 BRILL9789004523722 nllekb 20260415154229.0 m d cr un uuuua 230131s2023 gw sb 001 0 eng d 9789004516120 (print) 9789004523722 (electronic book) 10.1163/9789004523722 DOI (OCoLC)1330690302 NL-LeKB NL-LeKB rda eng HF3838 HBJF bicssc HIS 003000 bisacsh HIS 026000 bisacsh 382.0951 23 SCHOTTENHAMMER, ANGELA, author. China and the Silk Roads (ca. 100 BC to 1800 AD) : Role and Content of its Historical Access to the Outside World / Angela Schottenhammer. 1 online resource Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023 Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes ; 6 Includes bibliographical references and index. The book investigates China's relations to the outside world between ca. 100 BCE and 1800 AD. In contrast to most histories of the Silk Roads, the focus of this book clearly lies on the maritime Silk Road and on the period between Tang and high Qing, selecting aspects that have so far been neglected in research on the history of China's relations with the outside world. The author examines, for example, the power alliance between the Tang and the Arabs during Tang times, the specific role of fanbing 蕃兵 (frontier tribal troops) during Song times, the interrelationship between maritime commerce, military expansion, and environmental factors during the Yuan, the question of whether or not early Ming China can be considered a (proto-)colonialist country, the role force and violence played during the Zheng He expeditions, and what role of the Asia-Pacific world played for late Ming and early Qing rulers. English China Commerce History. China Relations History. Print version: China and the Silk Roads (ca. 100 BC to 1800 AD) : Role and Content of its Historical Access to the Outside World. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023. 9789004516120 Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023. Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes ; 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004523722 ddc E-BOOK 49431 49431 2026-04-15 11:21:00 0 382.0951 EB04514 https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004523722 2026-04-15 E-BOOK 0 ddc 0 0 0 CUTN CUTN 2026-04-15