China and East Africa : ancient ties, contemporary flows

1. Verfasser: Kusimba, Chapurukha Makokha , [VerfasserIn] , [HerausgeberIn]
Weitere Verfasser: Zhu, Tiequan , [HerausgeberIn] , [auhtor.]
Kiura, Purity W. , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2020].
Umfang/Format: xix, 277 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781498576161
1498576168
1498576141
9781498576147
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Preface. China and East Africa : ancient ties, contemporary flows / Chapurukha M. Kusimba
  • Part I. Ancient ties. 1. The emergence of stone tool technology: a comparative study between some early Stone Age assemblages in East Africa and China / Louis De Weyer ; 2. Tracing prehistoric trade and economic links between the East African coast and East Asia / Emmanuel K. Ndiema ; 3. Ancient connections between China and East Africa / Chapurukha M. Kusimba ; 4. Life, death, and identity of the early Swahili peoples of the Kenyan coast / Janet Monge, Allan Morris, Sloan Williams and Chapurukha M. Kusimba ; 5. China, East Africa, and incipient globalization in the first millennium CE / Herman Kiriama ; 6. Siyu intertwined exchange networks from the early beginnings to the fifteenth century / Ibrahim Busolo Namunaba ; 7. Unraveling the links between the Tanzania’s coast and ancient China / Elgidius Ichumbaki ; 8. Chinese porcelain as proxy for understanding early globalization between China and Eastern Africa / Tiequan Zhu and Chapurukha M. Kusimba ; 9. The sources of East African Chinese Longquan celadon and imitation celadon / Min Wang, Tiequan Zhu, Khalfan Bini Ahmed and Chapurukha M. Kusimba ; 10. The consumption of glass beads in ancient Swahili East Africa / Gilbert Oteyo and Chapurukha M. Kusimba
  • Part II. Contemporary flows. 11. Six hundred years of harmony: comparing Zheng He’s west ocean navigation with China’s African policy / Xinfeng Li ; 12. Impacts of Chinese influence in contemporary East Africa / Angela Kabiru ; 13. Becoming Mitumba: transnational secondhand clothing trade between China and Kenya / Boyang Ma ; 14. The potentials, opportunities, and challenges of underwater cultural heritage for understanding early global networks / Caesar Bita ; 15. Opportunities and challenges of preserving cultural relics in a globalized world / Zhan Changfa ; 16. China and East Africa ancient ties and contemporary flows : a critical appraisal / Augustin F.C. Holl.