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The Blacks of Premodern China describes the earliest Chinese encounters with peoples regarded as black. It focuses on the first exposure of Chinese to blacks hailing from East Africa, chiefly from today's Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, who arrived in China as slaves between the seventh and seventeenth centuries C.E.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter One. From History's Mists
Chapter Two. The Slaves of Guangzhou
Chapter Three. To the End of the Western Sea
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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    Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
    Publication Date: 27/11/2009
    ISBN13: 9780812241938, 978-0812241938
    ISBN10: 0812241932
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    The Blacks of Premodern China describes the earliest Chinese encounters with peoples regarded as black. It focuses on the first exposure of Chinese to blacks hailing from East Africa, chiefly from today's Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, who arrived in China as slaves between the seventh and seventeenth centuries C.E.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Chapter One. From History's Mists
    Chapter Two. The Slaves of Guangzhou
    Chapter Three. To the End of the Western Sea
    Conclusion
    Notes
    Glossary
    Bibliography
    Index
    Acknowledgments

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