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Strangers at the Heavenly Court

The 1517 Portuguese Embassy to China

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Fachbuch

Buch. Hardcover

2025

X, 192 S. 1 s/w-Abbildung.

Springer. ISBN 9789819527007

Format (B x L): 14.8 x 21 cm

Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History

Produktbeschreibung

This open access book examines the first modern diplomatic contact between Europe and East Asia: the 1517 Portuguese embassy to China. The experience did not end well, for in 1521, the Ming Court decided to cut off relations, and a battle broke out between the Guangdong and Portuguese fleets. This work seeks to explain why this happened. Making extensive use of both Chinese and Western archival sources, it proposes a new interpretation—one that breaks with the traditional “clash of civilizations” viewpoint and focuses instead on the diversity of actors and the complex relationships between them.