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1368 - China and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover)
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1368 - China and the Making of the Modern World (Hardcover)
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A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its
historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the
Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history.
A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic
missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the
way for China's first modern global era. 1368 maps China's
ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of
European mariners and the shock of the Opium Wars. In Ali Humayun
Akhtar's new picture of world history, China's current rise evokes
an earlier epoch, one that sheds light on where Beijing is heading
today. Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe
palaces of silk and jade in Beijing's Forbidden City. Malay legends
recount stories of Chinese princesses arriving in Melaka with gifts
of porcelain and gold. During Europe's Age of Exploration, Iberian
mariners charted new passages to China, which the Dutch and British
East India Companies transformed into lucrative tea routes. But
during the British Industrial Revolution, the rise of steam engines
and factories allowed the export of the very commodities once
imported from China. By the end of the Opium Wars and the arrival
of Commodore Perry in Japan, Chinese and Japanese reformers called
for their own industrial revolutions to propel them into the
twentieth century. What has the world learned from China since the
Ming, and how did China reemerge in the 1970s as a manufacturing
superpower? Akhtar's book provides much-needed context for
understanding China's rise today and the future of its connections
with both the West and a resurgent Asia.
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