Sung Dynasty overseas trade

Author: Huang Chunyan
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: The Song Dynasty was a crucial period for the development of overseas trade in China, which is now a widely recognized consensus among scholars and needs no further elaboration. Research on Song Dynasty overseas trade has been ongoing since the pioneering works of scholars like San Yuan Zicang and Fujiwara Toyohachi were published in the 1910s. Over the past century, Chinese and foreign scholars have devoted significant efforts to this field, resulting in a wealth of achievements (including numerous important papers by the author of this book). Therefore, achieving breakthroughs in this field naturally comes with extraordinary difficulty. Perhaps for this very reason, few new perspectives have emerged in recent years in the study of Song Dynasty overseas trade, and no comprehensive monographs summarizing the research accomplishments of the late 20th century, both domestically and internationally, have been published. On one hand, research on Song Dynasty overseas trade urgently needs development, and on the other hand, there are few breakthroughs and comprehensive monographs in this field. This has created an eager anticipation for the emergence of high-level new works. This book is published at this very moment, and its significance is naturally very important. It is a monograph that systematically studies the history of Song Dynasty overseas trade. The author argues that ancient Chinese overseas trade long held a dominant position in international trade, but its development was (full of twists and turns) and slow. The Song Dynasty was a period when ancient China shifted its focus in foreign trade, an era of trade system reforms and maritime technology innovations, laying the foundation for the basic scope of ancient Chinese maritime trade. The Song Dynasty was a crucial period for the development of overseas trade in China, which is now a widely recognized consensus among scholars and needs no further elaboration. Research on Song Dynasty overseas trade has been ongoing since the pioneering works of scholars like San Yuan Zicang and Fujiwara Toyohachi were published in the 1910s. Over the past century, Chinese and foreign scholars have devoted significant efforts to this field, resulting in a wealth of achievements (including numerous important papers by the author of this book). Therefore, achieving breakthroughs in this field naturally comes with extraordinary difficulty. Perhaps for this very reason, few new perspectives have emerged in recent years in the study of Song Dynasty overseas trade, and no comprehensive monographs summarizing the research accomplishments of the late 20th century, both domestically and internationally, have been published. On one hand, research on Song Dynasty overseas trade urgently needs development, and on the other hand, there are few breakthroughs and comprehensive monographs in this field. This has created an eager anticipation for the emergence of high-level new works. This book is published at this very moment, and its significance is naturally very important.