Did China drive or resist the early wave of globalization? Some scholars insist that China contributed nothing to the rise of the global economy that began arou

Argues that Qing China was not just a continental empire, but a maritime power protecting its interests at sea.

After the fall of the Qing empire, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval, Buddhist monks in the Mongolian frontiers of the Soviet Union and Republican China f

In Outlaws of the Sea, Robert J. Antony provides a comprehensive account of the history of maritime piracy in coastal south China from the 1630s to the 1940s. H

Did China drive or resist the early wave of globalization? Some scholars insist that China contributed nothing to the rise of the global economy that began arou