Sino-Foreign Cultural Exchange

ISBN-13: 9781032611860 / Twarda / 2023 / 424 str.

Cai Hongsheng

Opis

Understanding culture as a whole way of life, this book touches on various aspects of Sino-foreign interactions, tracing cultural exchanges depicted in Chinese and foreign sources, with particular attention to events or anecdotes in the Tang and Qing periods.

Spis treści

1: Tributes from the Nine Surnames of the Sogdians in the Tang Period   2: Rituals and Customs of the Nine Surnames of the Sogdians in the Tang Period   3: “Seven” as a Venerated Number among the Nine Surnames of the Sogdians in the Tang Period   4: The Mu Sogdians in the Tang Period   5: Worship of Fire and Sky among the Ancient Turks   6: Legal Practice in the Turkic Khaganate   7: Local Products of the Turks   8: Tracing the History of Pugs   9: Lions in China   10: Variation of Manichaeism in the Coastal Areas in the Tang and Song Periods   11: The Kunlun Slaves in Buddhist Books of the Tang and Song Periods   12: “Caravan Tea”   13: Russian-American Company and the Canton Port   14: “Qin Huan” from the Russian Hotel   15:  The Three Character Classic in Russia   16: The “Russian Case” in the Tianjin Missionary Incident   17: The Dutch Factory in Canton during the Qing Period   18: Wang Wengao’s Historical Poems about the Dutch Tribute   19: Chinese Workers in Southeast Asia before 1912

O autorze

Cai Hongsheng was Professor of History at Sun Yat-sen University, China. He specialized in the history of Sino-foreign relations, particularly the research about ancient Turks and Buddhism in the Tang period, and the Canton trade in the Qing dynasty.