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Название: The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia
Автор: Akamine Mamoru
Издательство: University of Hawaii Press
Год: 2016
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 217
Для сайта: vtome.ru
Размер: 11.6 Мб
Язык: английский
This English translation of a key work by one of Okinawa’s most respected historians, Mamoru Akamine, provides a compelling new picture of the role played by the Ryukyu Kingdom in the history of East Asia. Okinawa Island, from which the present-day Japanese prefecture derives its name, is the largest of the Ryukyu Islands, an archipelago that stretches between Japan and Taiwan. In the present volume, Akamine chronicles the rise of the Ryukyu Kingdom in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when it played a major part in East Asian trade and diplomacy.