Compass on the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Theory, History and Culture

2024
ISBN: 978-981-97-7611-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

Reihe: China Academic Library

This book is a theoretical study of China's maritime development and maritime humanities and social sciences, as well as a study of China's maritime historiography. China is a large country with both land and sea, rich in biodiversity, and the ocean is an important environment for the Chinese nation to survive and thrive. In history, the Chinese nation has developed its own maritime economy, maritime society and maritime humanistic model. As a natural body, the ocean treats all littoral nations equally, and it is neither open nor closed to any one of them. Due to the different maritime environments, the ways the coastal nations adapt vary accordingly; hence the maritime culture is characterized by plurality and diversity. The contacts and exchanges between maritime civilizations in history are riddled with misunderstandings, exclusions, conflicts, and confrontations. Therefore, it is necessary to develop dialogues among varied maritime civilizations of varied countries, which, as a result, will develop together through mutual tolerance, seek common ground while shelving differences, and extract the idea of maritime civilization for all mankind through mutual learning and complementing each other.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yang, Guozhen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Li, Suying

Jiang, Guiying

Chang, Peng

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. New Outlook for Ocean and Maritime Humanities and Social Sciences.- 2. Maritime Development and Maritime culture.- 3. The Maritime History of China.- 4. Maritime History in the Jiaqing and Daoguang Periods.- 5. Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Yang Guozhen, Professor of Chinese History at Xiamen University

Research interests: History of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Chinese Socioeconomic History, and Maritime History.

Education and Employment:

1961 B.A. at the Department of History, Xiamen University

1961-1978 Assistant professor at the Department of History, Xiamen University

1978-1983 Lecturer at the Institute of History, Xiamen University

1984-1986 Vice director at the Institute of History, Xiamen University

April-July, 1985 Visiting Scholar to Kyoto University

Sept, 1985-Sept, 1986 Visting Scholar to East Asian Study Center at Stanford University

1985 Professor of History at Xiamen University

1986 Ph.D. Supervisor

1994 titled “Distinguished Young Scholar at National Level”

1987-2006 Director of History Research Center at Xiamen University

2010 Emeritus Professor

Currently

Chief Editor of

Member of the Academic Consultation Committee at the Institute of Chinese History

Visiting Professor of Capital Normal University at Beijing, National Central University and National Chengchi University at Taiwan

Chief Expert of the “985 Project” of the Innovation Research base of maritime development at Ocean University of China

Besides, Prof. Yang has been invited to give talks at Kyoto University, Stanford University, Oxford University, etc.

Selected Publications:

Prof. Yang is Author of (2010), (1981), (2009), (1998), (2003),(2019), etc.

He is also Compiler of , , etc. As Editor-in-Chief, he is known for “Chinese Maritime Civilization Studies” (10 volumes, 2016), “The Sea and China Study Series” (25 monographs, 2019), etc.