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Author Wyatt, Don J., author.

Title The Blacks of premodern China / Don J. Wyatt
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Encounters with Asia
Encounters with Asia.
Contents From history's mists -- The slaves of Guangzhou -- To the end of the Western Sea
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 12, 2016)
Subject Africans -- China -- History -- To 1500
Black people -- China -- History -- To 1500
Slavery -- China -- Guangzhou -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Africans.
Black people.
Race relations.
International relations.
Slavery.
SUBJECT Africa -- Relations -- China
China -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00002664
China -- Relations -- Africa
Guangzhou (China) -- Race relations
Subject Africa.
China.
China -- Guangzhou.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812203585
0812203585
1283890526
9781283890526
Other Titles Blacks of pre-modern China