Sea and Empire: Ming and Qing Era
About This Novel
This book is the "Ming and Qing Era" volume in the "History of China" series published by Kodansha Japan. The author of this book vividly demonstrates the history of the ocean and the five-hundred-year history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and provides a rigorous and easy-to-understand explanation of the Ming and Qing dynasties, an era of rapid changes spanning from the Middle Ages to the modern era. In the past, the mainstream view, both at home and abroad, was that the Ming and Qing Dynasties (before the Opium War) were a period of stagnation; China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was regarded as a period of "isolation", a period without access to the ocean. In the past 20 to 30 years, international academic circles have vigorously criticized the above statement, arguing that China's economy developed greatly during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and society and culture also experienced profound changes. China's connections with the outside world were far stronger than before, thus playing a very important role in international trade. This book adopts new insights from international academic circles on these major issues, so it is very innovative in terms of historical perspective.
What Readers Think
Rating
Community(0)
Rating
Community(0)
