Tribute Circle: Traditional Chinese World Order
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Tribute Circle - the key to understanding the ancient history of East Asia! Historian Zhang Hongjie's new work in the "Brief Reading of Chinese History" series! Understanding the tribute system is the key to understanding the history of China and East Asia. For more than two thousand years, the East Asian cultural circle with Chinese civilization as its core has established a unique etiquette system - tribute. Through this tribute system, various countries maintained frequent exchanges with China, and the Chinese-style political system and cultural concepts were slowly spread. This world, which originally had different customs and languages, was gradually woven into a "civilized" world with a unified script and unified values over more than a thousand years. Showing the "beautiful old world" under the tributary order, the ambitions and calculations hidden behind obedience and surrender. This book deeply analyzes the unique tributary system of ancient China and reproduces the glory of "common master". By detailing nine different tribute types including Korea, Ryukyu, Japan, and Vietnam, it presents readers with the inner operating mechanism of the longest-lasting international order in human history. The well-known historian Zhang Hongjie has devoted five years to present a panoramic view of traditional China's world order - the tributary system - with rich and detailed historical materials. The book shows the international environment in East Asia and the actual operation of the tributary system over the past two thousand years, and reveals the waves and turbulence under the calm surface in multiple centers in the unified system!
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