 | Wei Yüan and China’s Rediscovery of the Maritime World Subjects: Wei Yüan 1794–1857. Hai kuo t’u chih; Asia Southeastern -- Foreign relations -- China; China -- Foreign relations -- Asia Southeastern; This book revises earlier views of statecraft reformer Wei Yuan and of Chinese foreign relations during the nineteenth century. Approaching the history of nineteenth-century China from the perspective of Southeast Asian history, the author demonstrates the interaction, from Ch'in times onwards, between China and the Southern ocean or Nan-yang. |
