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 ha

Premodern Chinese described a great variety of the peoples they encountered as "black." The earliest and most frequent of these encounters were with their South

"Few thinkers have stood as squarely at both the center and the periphery of an intellectual movement as has Shao Yung (1011-1077). Ethical model and eccentric,