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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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