The blue frontier : maritime vision and power in the Qing empire
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The blue frontier : maritime vision and power in the Qing empire
(Cambridge oceanic histories / edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram)
Cambridge University Press, 2019
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published 2018
Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-290) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this revisionist history of the eighteenth-century Qing Empire from a maritime perspective, Ronald C. Po argues that it is reductive to view China over this period exclusively as a continental power with little interest in the sea. With a coastline of almost 14,500 kilometers, the Qing was not a landlocked state. Although it came to be known as an inward-looking empire, Po suggests that the Qing was integrated into the maritime world through its naval development and customs institutionalization. In contrast to our orthodox perception, the Manchu court, in fact, deliberately engaged with the ocean politically, militarily, and even conceptually. The Blue Frontier offers a much broader picture of the Qing as an Asian giant responding flexibly to challenges and extensive interaction on all frontiers - both land and sea - in the long eighteenth century.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Setting the scene
- 2. Modeling the sea
- 3. The dragon navy
- 4. Guarded management
- 5. Writing the waves
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1. 'Inner sea' and 'outer sea' in imperial documents
- Appendix 2. A chronicle of sea patrol regulations in the long eighteenth century
- Appendix 3. Glossary of Chinese characters.
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