China and the Silk Roads (ca. 100 BCE to 1800 CE): Role and Content of Its Historical Access to the Outside World

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Notes

1 Several articles in Ralph Kauz and Morris Rossabi (eds.), Tribute System and Rulership in Late Imperial China (Göttingen: V&R unipress / Bonn University Press, 2022), provide further information about the many forms of tribute relations.

2 An old but indispensable work, one may add to the bibliography, is Liu Mau-Tsai, Kutscha und seine Beziehungen zu China vom 2. Jh. v. bis zum 6. Jh. n. Chr. 2 vols. (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1969).

3 Johannes Kurz, “Philology Lost: Variable Interpretations of the Raid of Guangzhou in 758 from the 18th to the 21st Centuries,” JAH 57 (2023) 1–2, pp. 81–115.

4 See my review in Monumenta Serica 58 (2010), pp. 426–430.

5 The concept of this map goes back to earlier versions found in Archipel 56 (1998) and in Dietmar Rothermund and Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (eds.), Der Indische Ozean: Das afro-asiatische Mittelmeer als Kultur- und Wirtschaftsraum (Wien: Promedia Verlag, 2004), p. 43.

6 Zhou Yunzhong 周运中, Zhengshuo Taiwan gu shi 正说台湾古史 (Xiamen: Xiamen daxue chubanshe, 2016); Roderich Ptak, Fujian – Penghu – Taiwan: Frühe Kontakte, nach Texten zusammengefaßt (ca. 200–1450 n.Chr.) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015; Chinese translation: Taipei: Nantian shuju, 2022), pp. 65 et seq.

7 David Bade, Of Palm Wine, Women and War: The Mongolian Naval Expedition to Java in the 13th Century (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013), p. 177. Schottenhammer quotes Bade, but not the passage in question.

8 Ralph Kauz, Politik und Handel zwischen Ming und Timuriden: China, Iran und Zentralasien im Spätmittelalter (Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2005).