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East Africa in Chinese medieval sources

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378009%3A_____%2F22%3A00565911" target="_blank" >RIV/68378009:_____/22:00565911 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0341620" target="_blank" >https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0341620</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    D - Article in proceedings

  • CEP classification

  • 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

  • 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

  • e-ISSN

  • 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