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Gruzinski, The Eagle and the Dragon- Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century (December, 2014)

Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America ... piracy on China’s southern coast by his countrymen, Pires himself ended his ... Pires’s ill-fated expedition in China side by side with the Spanish conquest ...

Kang, East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute, 2010

science, not history. The key element of historical research is the use ... and China. Drawing on the work of Liam Kelley, Gary Ledyard, Peter C. Perdue, ... it as a fiction, he notes, China, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan all participated ...

McGuire, Living Karma- the Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu (January 1, 2014)

of the most influential Buddhist figures of Ming dynasty China. Beverly Foulks ... recluse from China” and dissociates himself from any specific institution ... well-researched book. Overall, Living Karma is an invaluable study that not only ...

Tracy and Rangow, eds., Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West, 2003.

and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West.  New York ... that occurred around the same time in Western Europe, Russia, and China. The work ... Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and China specifically contribute to the debate ...

Lorge, The Asian Military Revolution: From Gunpowder to the Bomb, 2008

the invention and early use of gunpowder in China and shows that the Chinese also ... was a pioneer in this kind of warfare. Perhaps one could call China under the Ming the first "gunpowder empire“. But the firm control of China by the Ming ...

Jiang, Mandate of Heaven and the Great Ming Code (November 2, 2013)

Most scholars, according to Jiang, perceive law in imperial China ... and “bureaucratic,” attributes China’s “nondevelopment” to the negative nature of law ... demarcated the boundary between “cultural China” and “inner/outer barbarians,” ...