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Globalizing Chinese History
Author(s) -
Van De Ven Hans
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2004.00075.x
Subject(s) - china , globalization , chinese economy , history , world history , point (geometry) , political science , development economics , psychology , economy , economics , ancient history , law , geometry , mathematics
Globalization is important as an opportunity to bring back the foreign as a significant factor in modern Chinese history and overcome some of the problems associated with exclusively China‐centered histories. This article focuses on the Chinese Maritime Customs to illustrate this point and to bring out the rich complexity of interactions between China and foreign countries. The century between 1850 and 1950 emerges not as one dominated by stagnation and decline but as one of great historical change and significance.