{"product_id":"china-and-east-africa-9781498576161","title":"China and East Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChina 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, throu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book offers a complex vision of different organisational forms of economic life and different evolutionary patterns of Sino-African exchanges. A broad array of commodities (ceramics, textile, coins, etc.) traded between China and East Africa that have been recovered from archaeological excavations are described and discussed.\u003c\/p\u003e * Azania:Archaeological Research In Africa *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a great resource for archaeologists working in East Africa and China. Altogether, the contributors provide a better understanding of the ancient socio­economic ties and contemporary flows between China and East Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e * African Archaeological Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: China and East Africa Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapurukha Kusimba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Ancient Ties\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: The Emergence of Stone Tool Technology: A Comparative Study between Some Early Stone Age Assemblages in East Africa and China\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouis De Weyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Tracing Prehistoric Trade and Economic Links between the East African Coast and East Asia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmmanuel K Ndiema\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Ancient Connections between China and East Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapurukha Kusimba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: The Biological and Cultural Identity of The Early Swahili Peoples of Coastal Kenya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanet Monge, Allan Morris, Sloan Williams and Chapurukha Kusimba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Incipient Globalization in First Millennium CE China and East Africa and China\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerman Kiriama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Siyu Intertwined Exchange Networks from the Early Beginnings to the 15th Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIbrahim Busolo Namunaba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Unravelling the Links between the Tanzania’s Coast and Ancient China\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElgidius Ichumbaki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Chinese Porcelain as Proxy for Understanding Early Globalization Between China and Eastern Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTiequan Zhu and Chapurukha Kusimba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: The Sources of East African Chinese Longquan Celadon and Imitation Celadon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMin Wang, Tiequan Zhu, Khalfan Bini Ahmed and Chapurukha Kusimba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: The Consumption of Glass Beads in Ancient Swahili East Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaure Dussubieux, Gilbert Oteyo and Chapurukha Kusimba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Contemporary Flows\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Six Hundred Years of Harmony: Comparing Zheng He’s West Ocean Navigation with China’s African Policy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLi Xinfeng\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Impacts of Chinese Influence in Contemporary East Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngela Kabiru\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Becoming Mitumba: Transnational Secondhand Clothing Trade between China and Kenya\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoyang Ma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: The Potentials, Opportunities and Challenges of Underwater Cultural Heritage for Understanding Early Global Networks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaesar Bita\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: Opportunities and Challenges of Preserving Cultural Relics in a Globalized World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZhan Changfa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16: China and East Africa Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows. A Critical Appraisal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAugustin F.C. Holl","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040821215575,"sku":"9781498576161","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498576161.jpg?v=1750947956","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/china-and-east-africa-9781498576161","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}