East Africa in Chinese medieval sources
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
East Africa in Chinese medieval sources
Original language description
My paper will bring a view on the earliest medieval contacts between East Africa and China, based on Chinese sources dating back from as early as the 8th century. It will bring early Chinese place names into comparison with modern names occurring in East Africa. China and Africa have a history of trade relations, sometimes through third parties, as far back as the Han Dynasty (202 BC and 220 AD). Chinese seafaring merchants and diplomats of the medieval Tang Dynasty (618–907) and Song Dynasty (960– 1279) often sailed into the Indian Ocean after visiting ports in Southeast Asia. Chinese sailors would travel to Malaya (currently Peninsular Malaysia), India, Sri Lanka, into the Persian Gulf and up the Euphrates River in modern-day Iraq, to the Arabian Peninsula and into the Red Sea, stopping to trade goods in Ethiopia and Egypt (as Chinese porcelain was highly valued in old Fustat, Cairo). The paper will indicate that, from the 9th century onwards, Chinese writers accurately described the geography of Africa.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
Standardisation and the wealth of place names. Aspects of a delicate relationship
ISBN
978-1-928424-96-3
ISSN
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
207-216
Publisher name
SunBonani Media
Place of publication
Bloemfontein
Event location
Bloemfontein
Event date
Sep 29, 2021
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
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