El desarrollo histórico de China, nuevo libro coordinado por Lola Elizalde
La historiadora María Dolores Elizalde -miembro de la AEEP- ha coordinado, junto con Wang Jianlang, un nuevo libro sobre China. Se trata de una obra colectiva, publicada en el Reino Unido, sobre el desarrollo histórico de China y sus relaciones internacionales, desde el Imperio Romano hasta nuestros días. Una perspectiva muy amplia que ofrece un indudable interés.
Estos son los datos y el índice del libro:
María Dolores Elizalde and Wang Jianlang, eds., China’s Development from a Global Perspective, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, 424 p. ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-1670-0
For a long time, the idea of China as a culture and society which was voluntarily secluding itself from the rest of the world was dominant. But, in reality, China has always been part of the world, just as the world has always sought to penetrate China. The relationship between China and the world was, in the past, sometimes smooth, and at other times it was difficult, but nevertheless the bond remained alive.
This collection presents an analysis of China from a global perspective within a broad temporal and spatial spectrum. It reveals the early relations established between the Roman Empire and China, the dynamics developed with the countries of the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and Japan, and the gradual path of Europeans and Americans towards China. The book reviews the development of diplomatic relations, the signing of agreements and alliances, and the rise and resolution of conflicts. It also analyses the forging of economic relations, the establishment of commercial exchanges and the creation of companies, professional bodies and institutions of collaboration.
Table of Contents
Part 1: China from Global Perspectives: An Introduction
Chapter One.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
China from Global Perspectives: An Introduction
Presentation: China in the World, the World in China, María Dolores ELIZALDE
Preface to China from Global Perspectives, WANG Jianlang
China in the World: Historiographical Reflection, Manel OLLÉ
Placing China in Global Histories, and Global Histories in China: Some Comments, Kenneth POMERANZ
Part 2: Approaches between China and the World
Chapter Two............................................................................................................................................................................................... 28
Imperial Rome and China: Communication and Information Transmission
Ann KOLB and Michael SPEIDEL
Chapter Three............................................................................................................................................................................................. 57
China–Bengal Interactions in the Early Fifteenth Century: A Study on Ma Huan’s and Fei Shin’s Travels Accounts
Md. Abdullah AL-MASUM
Chapter Four............................................................................................................................................................................................... 73
Caretakers of the Sulu King’s Tomb in China, 1417–1733
LIU Wenming
Chapter Five................................................................................................................................................................................................ 87
China from the Perspective of an Unusual Spanish Diplomat: Eduard Toda, Consul at Macao, Hong Kong, Canton and Shanghai,
1875–1882
María Dolores ELIZALDE
Part 3: International Relations
Chapter Six............................................................................................................................................................................................... 122
Europe, China and the Family of Nations: Commercial Enlightenment in the Sattelzeit, 1780–1840
Guido ABBATTISTA
Chapter Seven.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 196
The Golden Gate and the Open Door: Civilization, Empire, and Exemption in the History of U.S. Chinese Exclusion, 1868−1910
Paul A. KRAMER
Chapter Eight............................................................................................................................................................................................ 220
Laboratory of Globalization? Tianjin c. 1900
Pierre SINGARAVÉLOU
Chapter Nine............................................................................................................................................................................................. 233
China and the International Alliances at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Valdo FERRETTI
Chapter Ten.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 252
The Memory and Legacy of the Tribute System in the Twentieth Century China
KAWASHIMA Shin
Part 4: Economic Relations
Chapter Eleven......................................................................................................................................................................................... 272
The Monetization of Silver in China: Ming China and Its Global Interactions
WAN Ming
Chapter Twelve........................................................................................................................................................................................ 294
Chinese Silk and European Trade: A Balance (Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)
Salvatore CIRIACONO
Chapter Thirteen...................................................................................................................................................................................... 324
The Spanish Link in the Canton Trade, 1787–1830: Silver, Opium and the Royal Philippines Company
Ander PERMANYER-UGARTEMENDIA
Chapter Fourteen..................................................................................................................................................................................... 347
Commercial Relations of the Russian-American Company with China in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Alexander Yu. PETROV
Chapter Fifteen........................................................................................................................................................................................ 372
Foreign Engineers’ Activities in China and the Process of China’s Internationalization: The Case of the Engineering Society
of China, 1901–1941
WU Lin-chun
Contributors.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 401