Diplomacy and Trade in the Chinese World, 589-1276

DIPLOMACY AND TRADE IN THE CHINESE WORLD 589- ...

HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL STUDIES HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK SECTION FOUR CHINA edited by S.F. TEISER .M. KERN VOLUME EIGHTEEN DIPLOM ...

DIPLOMACY AND TRADE IN THE CHINESE WORLD 589- BY HANS BIELENSTEIN BRILL LEIDEN•BOSTON 2005 ...

This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bielenstein, Hans. Diplomacy and tra ...

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The Sources List of Maps. ix Introduction Continental South Asia and the Islands Chiao-chih Lin-yi. Champa To-mien Wu-hsün, P’u ...

contents ix LIST OF MAPS Continental South Asia and the Islands in the Chinese sources, 7th century............................ ...

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the sources 1 THE SOURCES The chief sources for the current work are the dynastic histories. They were for this time compiled by ...

2 the sources t’ung-k’ao by Ma Tuan-lin (fl. 1273) builds on the T’ung-tien and has entries down to 1224. It is especially infor ...

the sources 3 is an impressive achievement. China among Equals is a splendid work, edited by Morris Rossabi. Special respect is ...

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introduction 5 Introduction This work is a sequel to the chapter on EMBASSIES in my The Six Dynasties, vol.II (Bulletin of the M ...

6 introduction sidered potential subjects who held their offices as only “acting” or “probationary” rulers until they were recog ...

introduction 7 came more than once, even “promoted”. It pleased the court to believe that it thereby expanded its bureaucacy bey ...

8 introduction may have been a common practice.^3 The Chinese received many goods of great value to them, either for purposes of ...

continental south asia and the islands 9 Continental South Asia and the Islands During the Six Dynasties, trade connections betw ...

10 continental south asia and the islands sion, based on ancient sailing directions as well as modern linguistics, have therefor ...