The Blacks of Premodern China (Encounters with Asia)

The Blacks of Premodern China (Encounters with Asia)

by Don J . Wyatt (Author)

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 30 Oct 2009

ISBN 10: 0812241932
ISBN 13: 9780812241938