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- Title
NÁMOŘNÍ ČÍNSKÁ ZEĎ A JEJÍ HRADBY.
- Authors
Tomášek, Michal
- Abstract
At the very end of Chinese antiquity, the Tang dynasty made great efforts to control as much of the north-western territories as possible to ensure the security of trade on the Silk Road. Its fall in 907 was followed by half a century of internal division of China, which in 960 began to be consolidated by another dynasty – Song (960–1279). In the meantime, however, the Chinese have lost control of the northwestern territories, which caused overshadowing for China economically important land trade routes. Like Europeans, when almost five centuries later they overcame the economic consequences of the Turkish occupation of Constantinople, China was forced to shift its trade activities from land to sea. Motivated primarily by economic interests and using advanced technologies, between the 10th and 15th centuries it gained the position of a world maritime power. The culmination of this period are the discoveries of the Chinese “Columbus” – Admiral Zheng He. Mainly thanks to him, Ming China (1368–1644) significantly influenced politics, economics and the military of the territories on the coasts of India and Farther India, Arabian Peninsula and East Africa. The history of building, consolidating and developing this maritime connection influenced the New Silk Road project, which was presented in 2013 by Chinese President Xi Jinping. That is why the otherwise neglected beginning of the Chinese modern age deserves our attention even nowadays.
- Subjects
SILK Road; TRADE routes; TANG dynasty, China, 618-907; ECONOMIC impact; SECURITIES trading; ZHENG He; PROPERTY rights
- Publication
Far East / Dálný Východ, 2019, Vol 9, Issue 2, p49
- ISSN
1805-1049
- Publication type
Article