A novel approach to Chinese history is adopted here, in that 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 the various world institutions of which that order is composed. 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.
- ISBN10 0333434056
- ISBN13 9780333434055
- Publish Date June 1988 (first published 1 January 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432
- Language English