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Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming

Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752473824
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming written by Jonathan Clements and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fantastic true story of the infamous pirate; Coxinga who became king of Taiwan and was made a god - twice. From humble origins, Coxinga's father became the richest man in China and Admiral of the Emperor's navy during the Ming Dynasty. As his eldest son, Coxinga was given the best education and developed a love of poetry and the study of Confucius. From this unlikely beginning, it took the invasion of south China by the Manchu and the subsequent loss of both his parents - his father defected to the Manchu and his mother, a Japanese Samurai, died in battle - to turn Coxinga from scholar to warrior. Fiercely loyal to his exiled Emperor, Coxinga fought against overwhelming odds until his defeat drove him out to sea and over to Taiwan - at the time a lawless set of islands inhabited by cannibals. Self-styled king of Taiwan, Coxinga died at the moment of his triumph. His descendants ruled the island for two decades.

Formosa Under the Dutch

Author : William Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042983845X
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Formosa Under the Dutch written by William Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1903, this volume explored the history of Formosa (now Taiwan) under Dutch occupation between 1624 and 1661, along with shedding some light on its early history. As missionaries were again at work in Formosa, the author found it useful to understand the fate of the island’s previous Catholic colonisation. Part 1 is composed from the Oud en Niew Oost-Indian by Franҫois Valentyn and covers topography, trade and religion. Part 2 covers Catholic Missions to the Island and sheds some light on the issues they faced related to having no vernacular Bibles and other methods of conversion. This will be of particular interest to students and researchers of Catholic world conversion efforts under the Counter-Reformation, in comparison to similar efforts elsewhere in Asia such as Japan, China and India. Part 3 narrates the events which led up to, and culminated in, the nine months’ siege of Fort Zeelandia which ended the rule of the Dutch East India Company over what is now Taiwan.

Globalization in Southeast Asia

Author : Shinji Yamashita
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812568
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Globalization in Southeast Asia written by Shinji Yamashita and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.

Asia in the Making of Europe

Author : Donald F. Lach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226467535
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (675 download)

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Book Synopsis Asia in the Making of Europe by : Donald F. Lach

Download or read book Asia in the Making of Europe written by Donald F. Lach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Japan Extolled and Decried

Author : C.P. Thunberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113578745X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Japan Extolled and Decried written by C.P. Thunberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spent eighteen fascinating months in the notoriously inaccessible Japan in 1775-1776, and this is his story. Thunberg studied at Uppsala University in Sweden where he was a favourite student of the great Linnaeus, father of modern scientific classification. He determined to travel the world and enlisted as a physician with the Dutch East India Company. He arrived in Japan in the summer of 1775 and stayed for eighteen months. He observed Japan widely, and travelled to Edo (modern Tokyo) where he became friends with the shogun’s private physician, Katsuragawa Hoshû, a fine Scholar and a notorious rake. They maintained a correspondence even after Thunberg had returned to his homeland. Thunberg’s ‘Travels’ appeared in English in 1795 and until now has never been reprinted. Fully annotated and introduced by Timon Screech.

Sinographies

Author : Eric Hayot
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145291348X
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Sinographies written by Eric Hayot and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sinographies' examines topics like colonialism, literary modernism, translation, anime, and Tibet. As a whole, this volume imagines sinography as a new methodological approach to the study of China, one that clears ground for new kinds of comparative work.

The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle... a Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle... a Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eastern Seas

Author : B. W. Bax
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Eastern Seas written by B. W. Bax and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III

Author : Donald F. Lach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226467007
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III by : Donald F. Lach

Download or read book Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III written by Donald F. Lach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance. In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.

The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History

Author : William Reger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317025326
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History written by William Reger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical, informational - that plagued imperial formations in the early modern period (1500-1800). During this time of wrenching technological, demographic, climatic, and economic change, empires had to struggle with new religious movements, incipient nationalisms, new sea routes, new military technologies, and an evolving state system with complex new rules of diplomacy. Engaging with a host of current debates, the chapters in this book break away from conventional historical conceptions of empire as an essentially western phenomenon with clear demarcation lines between the colonizer and the colonized. These are replaced here by much more fluid and subtle conceptions that highlight complex interplays between coalitions of rulers and ruled. In so doing, the volume builds upon recent work that increasingly suggests that empires simply could not exist without the consent of their imperial subjects, or at least significant groups of them. This was as true for the British Raj as it was for imperial China or Russia. Whilst the thirteen chapters in this book focus on a number of geographic regions and adopt different approaches, each shares a focus on, and interest in, the working of empires and the ways that imperial formations dealt with - or failed to deal with - the challenges that beset them. Taken together, they reflect a new phase in the evolving historiography of empire. They also reflect the scholarly contributions of the dedicatee, Geoffrey Parker, whose life and work are discussed in the introductory chapters and, we’re proud to say, in a delightful chapter by Parker himself, an autobiographical reflection that closes the book.

The Gunpowder Age

Author : Tonio Andrade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691178143
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Gunpowder Age written by Tonio Andrade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global history The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answer, opening a fresh perspective on a key question of world history: why did the countries of western Europe surge to global importance starting in the 1500s while China slipped behind? Historians have long argued that gunpowder weapons helped Europeans establish global hegemony. Yet the inhabitants of what is today China not only invented guns and bombs but also, as Andrade shows, continued to innovate in gunpowder technology through the early 1700s—much longer than previously thought. Why, then, did China become so vulnerable? Andrade argues that one significant reason is that it was out of practice fighting wars, having enjoyed nearly a century of relative peace, since 1760. Indeed, he demonstrates that China—like Europe—was a powerful military innovator, particularly during times of great warfare, such as the violent century starting after the Opium War, when the Chinese once again quickly modernized their forces. Today, China is simply returning to its old position as one of the world's great military powers. By showing that China’s military dynamism was deeper, longer lasting, and more quickly recovered than previously understood, The Gunpowder Age challenges long-standing explanations of the so-called Great Divergence between the West and Asia.

Maritime Taiwan

Author : Shih-Shan Henry Tsai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317465164
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Maritime Taiwan written by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers from around the world. Unlike China, with its long tradition of keeping foreigners out, Taiwan has a long history of interaction, both hostile and friendly, with other seafaring nations near and far. "Maritime Taiwan" captures the full drama and details of this remarkable history. It's filled with fascinating stories of foreign adventurers and echoes the bitter songs of Taiwan's aboriginal population, confronted by the convergence of different maritime cultures and values on the island.Here are accounts of the legendary pirate Koxinga, the Chinese junk trade, the mighty Dutch East India Company, British opium traders and Scottish tea merchants, Jesuit priests and Presbyterian missionaries, A French fleet commander, a Japanese colonial administrator, an American aid official, and many more. Here too is an extraordinary view of Taiwan over the centuries, as its distinct identity, culture, and values were shaped by its unique history. Today, with a population of only 23 million, Taiwan is the world's nineteenth largest economy, a vibrant, relatively free society on the strategic route between China and Southeast Asia. Maritime Taiwan also discusses the significant impact of American military, economic, educational, and technological aid on Taiwan's developments and addresses the island's continued importance in maintaining the U.S. hegemony in East Asia.

Taiwan

Author : Murray A. Rubinstein
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765614940
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Taiwan written by Murray A. Rubinstein and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2007 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive portrait of Taiwan. It covers the major periods in the development of this small but powerful island province/nation. The work is designed in the style of the multi-volume ""Cambridge History of China""

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III

Author : Donald F. Lach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226467696
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III written by Donald F. Lach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.

Japan and China

Author : Matsuda Wataru
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136821090
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Japan and China written by Matsuda Wataru and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume ties together the histories of Japan and China for the modern period prior to the 20th century. The chapters look at Chinese and Japanese works which were written in response to events in the other country. None of these works has received any sustained attention in the west. As a result we get a view of how Chinese and Japanese saw each other at a time when there were few personal contacts allowed. Many of these texts were built on fanciful embellishments of stories that migrated from one land to the other. But the unique qualities of the Sino-Japanese cultural bond seem to have conditioned the interaction so that these texts all reveal a fascinatingly well-defined area.

The Chinese Repository

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2950 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 2950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lost Colony

Author : Tonio Andrade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691159572
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Lost Colony written by Tonio Andrade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-04 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a Chinese pirate defeated European colonialists and won Taiwan during the seventeenth century During the seventeenth century, Holland created the world's most dynamic colonial empire, outcompeting the British and capturing Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Yet, in the Sino-Dutch War—Europe's first war with China—the Dutch met their match in a colorful Chinese warlord named Koxinga. Part samurai, part pirate, he led his generals to victory over the Dutch and captured one of their largest and richest colonies—Taiwan. How did he do it? Examining the strengths and weaknesses of European and Chinese military techniques during the period, Lost Colony provides a balanced new perspective on long-held assumptions about Western power, Chinese might, and the nature of war. It has traditionally been asserted that Europeans of the era possessed more advanced science, technology, and political structures than their Eastern counterparts, but historians have recently contested this view, arguing that many parts of Asia developed on pace with Europe until 1800. While Lost Colony shows that the Dutch did indeed possess a technological edge thanks to the Renaissance fort and the broadside sailing ship, that edge was neutralized by the formidable Chinese military leadership. Thanks to a rich heritage of ancient war wisdom, Koxinga and his generals outfoxed the Dutch at every turn. Exploring a period when the military balance between Europe and China was closer than at any other point in modern history, Lost Colony reassesses an important chapter in world history and offers valuable and surprising lessons for contemporary times.