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When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433
Louis Levathes
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Description for When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433
Paperback. Drawing on eye-witness accounts, official Ming histories, and African, Arab and Indian sources, this work shows readers the inside of China's most illustrious scientific and technological era. It sheds light on the historical and cultural context in which this great civilization thrived. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 pp halftones, line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; HBJF; HBLC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire's finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the edge of the world's `four corners.' It was a time of exploration and conquest, but it ended in a retrenchment so complete that less than a century later, it was a crime to go to sea in a multimasted ship. In When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes takes a fascinating and unprecedented look at this dynamic period ... Read more
A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire's finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the edge of the world's `four corners.' It was a time of exploration and conquest, but it ended in a retrenchment so complete that less than a century later, it was a crime to go to sea in a multimasted ship. In When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes takes a fascinating and unprecedented look at this dynamic period ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
252
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195112078
SKU
V9780195112078
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About Louis Levathes
Louise Levathes was a staff writer for National Geographic for ten years and writes for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. In 1990, she was a visiting scholar at The Johns Hopkins Centre for Chinese and American Studies at Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China.
Reviews for When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433
Taking the maritime story as her main theme, Levathes presents a fascinating picture of political and court life during the first several reigns of the Ming ... The story Levathes tells so skillfully could scarcely be more timely.
The Washington Post
Both an eloquent and smooth sail through history, and a reminder the China should have been the ... Read more
The Washington Post
Both an eloquent and smooth sail through history, and a reminder the China should have been the ... Read more