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082 0 4 _a359.00951
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100 1 _aLo, Jung-pang.
245 1 0 _aChina as a sea power, 1127-1368
_h[electronic resource] :
_ba preliminary survey of the maritime expansion and naval exploits of the Chinese people during the Southern Song and Yuan periods /
_cJung-pang Lo ; edited, and with commentary by Bruce A. Elleman.
260 _aSingapore :
_bNUS Press ;
_aHong Kong [China] :
_bHong Kong University Press,
_cc2012
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject Muse
_g2012)
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (1 electronic text (xx, 378 p.) :)
_bill., digital file.
500 _aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 344-352) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction / by Geoff Wade -- pt. I. Factors contributing to China's maritime expansion -- 1. China's rise as a naval power -- 2. The shift to the sea -- 3. The foundation of Chinese maritime power -- pt. II. The Southern Song period, 1127-1279 -- 4. Creation of the Southern Song navy -- 5. The War of 1161 and the expansion of the navy -- 6. Development of maritime trade -- pt. III. The Yuan period, 1260-1367 -- 7. The emergence of the Yuan navy : the Battle of Yaishan, 1279 -- 8. Yuan campaigns in the Eastern Sea -- 9. Yuan naval campaigns to the south -- pt. IV. Conclusions -- Conclusions : the collapse of the yuan, rise of the Ming, and China as a sea power -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
520 3 _aLo Jung-pang (1912-81) was a renowned professor of Chinese history at the University of California at Davis. In 1957 he completed a 600-page typed manuscript entitled China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368, but he died without arranging for the book to be published. Bruce Elleman found the manuscript in the UC Davis archives in 2004, and with the support of Dr Lo's family prepared an edited version of the manuscript for publication.Lo Jung-pang argues that during each of the three periods when imperial China embarked on maritime enterprises (the Qin and Han dynasties, the Sui and early Tang dynasties, and the Song, Yuan, and early Ming dynasties), coastal states took the initiative at a time when China was divided, maritime trade and exploration peaked when China was strong and unified, and then declined as Chinese power weakened. At such times, China's people became absorbed by internal affairs, and state policy focused on threats from the north and the west. These cycles of maritime activity, each lasting roughly five hundred years, corresponded with cycles of cohesion and division, strength and weakness, prosperity and impoverishment, expansion and contraction.In the early 21st century, a strong and outward looking China is again building up its navy and seeking maritime dominance, with important implications for trade, diplomacy and naval affairs. Events will not necessarily follow the same course as in the past, but Lo Jung-pang's analysis suggests useful questions for the study of events as they unfold in the years and decades to come.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
651 0 _aChina
_xHistory
_yYuan dynasty, 1260-1368.
651 0 _aChina
_xHistory
_ySong dynasty, 960-1279.
651 0 _aChina
_xHistory, Naval
_yTo 1644.
650 0 _aSea-power
_zChina
_xHistory.
655 0 _aElectronic books.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aElleman, Bruce A.,
_d1959-
710 2 _aProject Muse.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9971695057
_z9789971695057
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789971696207/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c36138
_d36138