Great State (eBook)

China and the World

Brook Timothy Brook (Autor)

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2019
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978-1-78283-347-5 (ISBN)

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China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at the height of their power could not move past coastal enclaves. Thus, China remained China through the Ming, the Qing, the Republic, the Occupation, and Communism. But, despite the desires of some of the most powerful people in the Great State through the ages, China has never been alone in the world. It has had to contend with invaders from the steppe and the challenges posed by foreign traders and imperialists. Indeed, its rulers for the majority of the last eight centuries have not been Chinese. Timothy Brook examines China's relationship with the world from the Yuan through to the present by following the stories of ordinary and extraordinary people navigating the spaces where China met and meets the world. Bureaucrats, horse traders, spiritual leaders, explorers, pirates, emperors, invaders, migrant workers, traitors, and visionaries: this is a history of China as no one has told it before.

Rezensionen

Brook takes you into the paintings in a way that can be spookily intimate

An erudite, surprising book that finds traces of swashbuckling where you'd least expect

Some of Mr. Brook's subjects are ethnically Chinese, but many are not - Mongols and Manchus figure prominently, as do Tibetans, Englishmen, Portuguese, Koreans and a host of others ... [It is] a wondrous range

Truly mesmerising. In this accessible but authoritative study, he... shows better than anyone I've read so far, the truly subversive power of detail

A fresh look at China's engagement with the outside world over centuries ... With useful maps and stories within stories, this is an ingenious look at an often misunderstood country

Excellent ... The power of this book lies partly in the fact that Brook does not overstate his case. While he does not seek to claim that China's current actions are prefigured by the past, an attentive reader cannot fail to notice extraordinary parallels

Impressive ... [Timothy Brook] at his best

A brilliant attempt to make us understand the reach and breadth of the first global age

The quest is fascinating and picaresque, a sort of cartographical Tristram Shandy with a sure-handed narrator steering us from Ming dynasty China to pre-Civil War Oxford to the Spice Islands of South-East Asia

What a pleasure to read a significant, original book that covers millennia of Chinese history in an informal, often chatty, but always learned style

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.9.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 16 page colour plate section
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: AI Superpowers • AI Superpowers Kai-Fu Lee • Anarchy William Dalrymple • Belt and Road • Black Death • China • China Michael Wood • Chinese history • Has China Won • Has China Won Kishore Mahbubani • Isolation Reads • Kai-Fu Lee • Kishore Mahbubani • Marco Polo • Michael Wood • Mr Selden's Map of China • One China Policy • opium wars • Pandemic • PPE Hijacking • The Fall and Rise of China • Timothy Brook • Vermeer's Hat • Wolf Warrior • Zheng He 1421
• ISBN-10: 1-78283-347-1 / 1782833471
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78283-347-5 / 9781782833475