China and East Africa -

China and East Africa

Ancient Ties, Contemporary Flows
Buch | Softcover
298 Seiten
2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7616-1 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
This book engages globalization from an archaeological and long-term perspective by using the case study of the historical interaction between China and East Africa. It raises questions of whether the greater connectivity that has emerged from globalization will lead to homogenization of culture, or the creation of a monoculture.
China 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, through land and seas. Edited by Chapurukha Kusimba, Tiequan Zhu, and Purity Wakabari Kiura, this collection explores different facets of the interaction between China and Africa, from their earliest manifestations to the present and with an eye to the future.

Chapurukha Kusimba is professor of anthropology at American University. Tiequan Zhu is professor of scientific archaeology at Sun Yat-Sen University. Purity Kiura is director of museums, sites, and monuments at The National Museums of Kenya

Preface: China and East Africa Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows.

Chapurukha Kusimba



Part I: Ancient Ties



Chapter 1: The Emergence of Stone Tool Technology: A Comparative Study between Some Early Stone Age Assemblages in East Africa and China

Louis De Weyer

Chapter 2: Tracing Prehistoric Trade and Economic Links between the East African Coast and East Asia

Emmanuel K Ndiema

Chapter 3: Ancient Connections between China and East Africa

Chapurukha Kusimba

Chapter 4: The Biological and Cultural Identity of The Early Swahili Peoples of Coastal Kenya

Janet Monge, Allan Morris, Sloan Williams and Chapurukha Kusimba

Chapter 5: Incipient Globalization in First Millennium CE China and East Africa and China

Herman Kiriama

Chapter 6: Siyu Intertwined Exchange Networks from the Early Beginnings to the 15th Century

Ibrahim Busolo Namunaba

Chapter 7: Unravelling the Links between the Tanzania’s Coast and Ancient China

Elgidius Ichumbaki

Chapter 8: Chinese Porcelain as Proxy for Understanding Early Globalization Between China and Eastern Africa

Tiequan Zhu and Chapurukha Kusimba

Chapter 9: The Sources of East African Chinese Longquan Celadon and Imitation Celadon

Min Wang, Tiequan Zhu, Khalfan Bini Ahmed and Chapurukha Kusimba

Chapter 10: The Consumption of Glass Beads in Ancient Swahili East Africa

Laure Dussubieux, Gilbert Oteyo and Chapurukha Kusimba



Part II: Contemporary Flows



Chapter 11: Six Hundred Years of Harmony: Comparing Zheng He’s West Ocean Navigation with China’s African Policy

Li Xinfeng

Chapter 12: Impacts of Chinese Influence in Contemporary East Africa

Angela Kabiru

Chapter 13: Becoming Mitumba: Transnational Secondhand Clothing Trade between China and Kenya

Boyang Ma

Chapter 14: The Potentials, Opportunities and Challenges of Underwater Cultural Heritage for Understanding Early Global Networks

Caesar Bita

Chapter 15: Opportunities and Challenges of Preserving Cultural Relics in a Globalized World

Zhan Changfa

Chapter 16: China and East Africa Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows. A Critical Appraisal

Augustin F.C. Holl

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Louis De Weyer, Emmanuel K. Ndiema
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 230 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 1-4985-7616-8 / 1498576168
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-7616-1 / 9781498576161
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