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13 sty 2016 · This article focuses on recent revisionist scholarship demonstrating that China's maritime history in the period 1500 to 1630 is no longer a case of ‘missed opportunity’, a viewpoint fostered by earlier writing dominated by state-centric and land-focused models. To challenge this perspective, this study first reviews analyses demonstrating ...
China Sea, part of the western Pacific Ocean bordering the Asian mainland on the east-southeast. The China Sea consists of two parts, the South China Sea (Chinese: Nan Hai) and the East China Sea (Chinese: Dong Hai), which connect through the shallow Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and mainland China.
11 maj 2017 · Though a coastline of some 15,000 kilometers from Korea to Vietnam has historically bounded and defined it, China has a reputation as a continental, not a maritime, empire.
The Four Seas (Chinese: 四海; pinyin: Sìhǎi) were four bodies of water that metaphorically made up the boundaries of ancient China. There is a sea for each for the four cardinal directions. The West Sea is Qinghai Lake, the East Sea is the East China Sea, the North Sea is Lake Baikal, and the South Sea is the South China Sea. [1]
1 gru 2012 · This article intends to provide a general outline of the historical role and significance of East Asian maritime space from its origins to approximately 1800, including the East China Sea, the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea (Huanghai), the southern section of the Japanese Sea, and parts of the South China Sea (now usually called Nanhai).
1 sty 2014 · This chapter overviews the geologic history of the China Seas with a summary of various kinds of evidence described in previous chapters. As marginal basins, the South China Sea opened since the early Oligocene, and the Okinawa Trough since the Pliocene.
China, in fact, has a historical maritime heritage that long predates the modern period e.g., Chinese ships first entered the Indian Ocean when sailors of the Wu kingdom found a sea route to India via Southeast Asia.
