China and East Africa

Ancient Ties, Contemporary Flows

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvChapurukha M. Kusimba,Tiequan Zhu,Purity Wakabari Kiura

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China and East Africa: Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows marks the culmination of a new round of archaeological and historical research on the relations between China and Africa, from the origins to the present. Africa and Asia have always been in constant contact, through land and seas. The contributors to this volume debate and present the results of their research on the very complex and intricate networks of connections that crisscrossed the Indian Ocean and surrounding lands linking Africa to East Asia. A growing number of speakers of Austronesian languages returned to Africa, reaching Madagascar in the early centuries of the Common Era. The diffusion of domesticated plants, like bananas, from New Guinea to South Asia and Africa where phytoliths are dated to the mid-fourth millennium in Uganda and mid-first millennium BCE in southern Cameroon, provide additional evidence on early interactions between Africa and Asia. Africa and Asia have always been in constant contact, through land and seas. Edited by Chapurukha Kusimba, Tiequan Zhu, and Purity Wakabari Kiura, this collection explores different facets of the interaction between China and Africa, from their earliest manifestations to the present and with an eye to the future.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-17
Mått151 x 230 x 22 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor298
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498576161

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Preface: China and East Africa Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows. Chapurukha KusimbaPart I: Ancient TiesChapter 1: The Emergence of Stone Tool Technology: A Comparative Study between Some Early Stone Age Assemblages in East Africa and ChinaLouis De WeyerChapter 2: Tracing Prehistoric Trade and Economic Links between the East African Coast and East AsiaEmmanuel K NdiemaChapter 3: Ancient Connections between China and East AfricaChapurukha KusimbaChapter 4: The Biological and Cultural Identity of The Early Swahili Peoples of Coastal KenyaJanet Monge, Allan Morris, Sloan Williams and Chapurukha KusimbaChapter 5: Incipient Globalization in First Millennium CE China and East Africa and ChinaHerman KiriamaChapter 6: Siyu Intertwined Exchange Networks from the Early Beginnings to the 15th CenturyIbrahim Busolo NamunabaChapter 7: Unravelling the Links between the Tanzania’s Coast and Ancient ChinaElgidius IchumbakiChapter 8: Chinese Porcelain as Proxy for Understanding Early Globalization Between China and Eastern AfricaTiequan Zhu and Chapurukha KusimbaChapter 9: The Sources of East African Chinese Longquan Celadon and Imitation CeladonMin Wang, Tiequan Zhu, Khalfan Bini Ahmed and Chapurukha KusimbaChapter 10: The Consumption of Glass Beads in Ancient Swahili East AfricaLaure Dussubieux, Gilbert Oteyo and Chapurukha KusimbaPart II: Contemporary FlowsChapter 11: Six Hundred Years of Harmony: Comparing Zheng He’s West Ocean Navigation with China’s African PolicyLi XinfengChapter 12: Impacts of Chinese Influence in Contemporary East AfricaAngela KabiruChapter 13: Becoming Mitumba: Transnational Secondhand Clothing Trade between China and KenyaBoyang MaChapter 14: The Potentials, Opportunities and Challenges of Underwater Cultural Heritage for Understanding Early Global NetworksCaesar BitaChapter 15: Opportunities and Challenges of Preserving Cultural Relics in a Globalized WorldZhan ChangfaChapter 16: China and East Africa Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows. A Critical AppraisalAugustin F.C. Holl