Blacks Of Premodern China
Don J. Wyatt
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Hardback. The Blacks of Premodern China describes the earliest Chinese encounters with peoples regarded as black. It focuses on the first exposure of Chinese to blacks hailing from East Africa, chiefly from today's Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, who arrived in China as slaves between the seventh and seventeenth centuries C.E. Series: Encounters with Asia. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: HBJF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
Premodern Chinese described a great variety of the peoples they encountered as "black." The earliest and most frequent of these encounters were with their Southeast Asian neighbors, specifically the Malayans. But by the midimperial times of the seventh through seventeenth centuries C.E., exposure to peoples from Africa, chiefly slaves arriving from the area of modern Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, gradually displaced the original Asian "blacks" in Chinese consciousness. In The Blacks of Premodern China, Don J. Wyatt presents the previously unexamined story of the earliest Chinese encounters with this succession of peoples they have historically regarded as black.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Encounters with Asia
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812241938
SKU
V9780812241938
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About Don J. Wyatt
Don J. Wyatt is Professor of History at Middlebury College.
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