Yiwen Li (City University of Hong Kong)

Networks of Faith and Profit

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Produktbeschreibung

Debunks long-held assumptions regarding the lack of contact between China and Japan between 839-1403 CE, arguing that a vibrant Sino-Japanese trade network flourished in this period as Buddhist monks and merchants fostered connections across maritime East Asia. Examination of Buddhist records, objects and images illuminates how this system worked.

Produktdetails

• Asian Connections
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781009303101
• ISBN-10: 1009303104
• Artikelnr.: 67160763

Autorenporträt

Yiwen Li teaches history and cultural heritage at City University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Buddhist trade networks in East Asia; 2. Replacing
tributary relations: the reciprocal collaboration between monks and
merchants, 839-900; 3. Not only for the dharma: pilgrim monks as
intermediaries between China and Japan, 900-1100; 4. Building a Base for
Trade: the 'Chinese quarter' in Hakata, 1100-1200; 5. Transporting goods
and faith: the economic privileges of the religious network, 1200-1270; 6.
Sending ships to China to finance monastery construction: trade between the
Mongol empire and the Japanese archipelago, 1270-1368; 7. Resuming tribute
relations and the aftermath of the religio-commercial network, 1368-1403.