Eastern History Academic Library - Sea Trade in the Song Dynasty

Author: Huang Chunyan
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: The Song Dynasty was a significant period for the development of overseas trade in China, which is a widely recognized consensus among scholars and needs no further elaboration. Research on Song Dynasty overseas trade has undergone extensive efforts from Chinese and foreign scholars since the pioneering works of scholars like Sang Yuan Zicang and Fujiro Fujita were published in the 1910s. Over nearly a century, the field has yielded abundant results (including numerous important papers by the author of this book). Therefore, achieving breakthroughs in this field naturally comes with extraordinary challenges. 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 achievements of domestic and international research in the late 20th century have been published. On one hand, research on Song Dynasty overseas trade urgently needs development, and on the other hand, there are few breakthrough-oriented and comprehensive monographs in this field. This creates an eager anticipation for the emergence of high-level new works. The timely publication of this book is undoubtedly of great significance.