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Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds
Hyunhee Park
其他書名
Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2012-08-27
主題
History / Asia / General
History / Asia / China
History / Middle East / General
History / World
History / Historical Geography
Religion / Islam / General
Social Science / General
Technology & Engineering / Cartography
Travel / Maps & Road Atlases
ISBN
1107018684
9781107018686
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=W-2iWcxD2e8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia engaged in vigorous cross-cultural exchanges across the Indian Ocean. This book focuses on the years 700 to 1500, a period when powerful dynasties governed both regions, to document the relationship between the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the arrival of the Europeans. Through a close analysis of the maps, geographic accounts, and travelogues compiled by both Chinese and Islamic writers, the book traces the development of major contacts between people in China and the Islamic world and explores their interactions on matters as varied as diplomacy, commerce, mutual understanding, world geography, navigation, shipbuilding, and scientific exploration. When the Mongols ruled both China and Iran in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, their geographic understanding of each other's society increased markedly. This rich, engaging, and pioneering study offers glimpses into the worlds of Asian geographers and mapmakers, whose accumulated wisdom underpinned the celebrated voyages of European explorers like Vasco da Gama.