"With the goal of understanding China's future in a changing international landscape, this book offers a new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploratio

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 Tan

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