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★This book is created by the famous Spanish sinologist Professor Manel Ollé. With rigorous and detailed literature, this book looks at the huge and complex business network led by China in the Ming Dynasty from the most professional perspective!

Western historiography has frequently relegated the Pacific Ocean to the edges of the political and economic sphere of action of the Modern Age, even though it was the seedbed of today’s globalised market. In that period, between the shores of South America and Asia, there existed a vast, sophisticated trading network led by China, which surpassed intra-European commercial activity prior to 1800. Manel Ollé speaks of this East Asian colonial setting in the decades from 1570 to 1680 as a dynamic space where the interests of empires, sultanates, port cities, migrant flows, cultures, and creeds converged. This fascinating essay offers a lively fresco of a trans-Pacific community consisting of merchants, sailors, emigrants, missionaries, corsairs, and European and Asian rulers, thus debunking cliches about the role played by Asian states in proto-globalisation, while also situating historically certain aspects of today’s geopolitics.

Manel Ollé (Chinese name: Ouyang An)

A famous Spanish sinologist.
Born in Spain in 1962, he holds a Ph.D. from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is currently a professor of Chinese history and culture at Pompeu Fabra University and coordinator of a master's degree in Chinese Studies. His main research directions are maritime China, the relationship and concepts between China and Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the history of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia. He is a member of the Asia-Pacific Research Group of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), a visiting researcher at the National Overseas Sinology Research Center of Beijing Foreign Studies University, and a co-director of the "16th-17th Century Chinese and Southern European Historical Materials" project at Tsinghua University.
He has published many books, essays and articles on Chinese history. He also translated the works of Li Qingzhao, Pu Songling and Gao Xingjian to Spain. His representative works include: "Made in China: Sociopolitical and Cultural Awakening in Contemporary China", "The Coming China: Prospects for the 21st Century", "Imagine China" and "La empresa de China: From the Armada to the Manila Galleon". He has received literary prizes: Graud Leoster Poetry Prize, Catalan Poetry Prize, Gabriel Ferrat Prize, Barcelona Flower Games Prize.