Title:
Cultural Communications Between China and the Outside World Throughout History
Authors:
Fuwei Shen, Lyu Rui (translator)
Description
Cultural Communications Between China and the Outside World Throughou
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Title:
Cultural Communications Between China and the Outside World Throughout History
Authors:
Fuwei Shen, Lyu Rui (translator)
Description
Cultural Communications Between China and the Outside World Throughout History is a comprehensive historical study that examines the long-term development of cultural exchange between China and other regions of the world, from ancient times to the modern era. Written by Fuwei Shen and translated by Lyu Rui, the book provides an interdisciplinary analysis combining history, archaeology, philosophy, and cultural studies to explain how ideas, technologies, trade, and beliefs moved between China and global civilizations.
The book traces cultural interactions across multiple historical periods, highlighting how China’s relationships with Central Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas evolved through trade routes, diplomacy, maritime exploration, and intellectual exchange. It also emphasizes the role of both Chinese and foreign sources in reconstructing these cross-cultural connections.
Key topics include:
Early cultural exchanges before the Qin dynasty
Han–Tang era Silk Road interactions
Song and Yuan maritime and land trade networks
Ming dynasty voyages and global contact expansion
Transmission of Chinese inventions to the West
Early missionary and diplomatic encounters
Qing dynasty cultural exchanges with Europe
Modern globalization and cultural integration
The work combines archaeological evidence, historical records, and cross-cultural analysis to provide a broad and systematic overview of Sino-global cultural communication across millennia.
This eBook is especially useful for historians, cultural studies researchers, Asian studies scholars, and students of global history and international relations.
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