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1368 : China and the Making of the Modern World by Ali Humayun Akhtar is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is 1368 : China and the Making of the Modern World about?
**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 im
Who reads 1368 : China and the Making of the Modern World?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ali Humayun Akhtar
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781503627475
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, World History, Humanities