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Great State
Timothy Brook
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Beschreibung
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
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Some of Mr. Brook'
An erudite, surprising book that finds traces of swashbuckling where you'
What a pleasure to read a significant, original book that covers millennia of Chinese history in an informal, often chatty, but always learned style
Timothy Brook'
Truly mesmerising. In this accessible but authoritative study, he... shows better than anyone I'
[A] vigorous account ... Scattered across the maps and paintings that Brook invokes, his thirteen encounters take in pirates, merchants, soldiers, traders, explorers, emperors and spiritual leaders - characters in China'
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'
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
A fresh look at China'
<p><b>Praise for <i>Mr Selden'
A brilliant attempt to make us understand the reach and breadth of the first global age
Brook takes you into the paintings in a way that can be spookily intimate
Impressive ... [Timothy Brook] at his best
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