Foreign Trade in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties

Yuqin Sun, Xu Chang, Rui Su and Robin Gilbank

Chapter 3 in A General History of China's Foreign Trade:Volume 1, 2024, pp 59-102 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: From the end of the 2nd century to the end of the 6th century CE, political instability was witnessed in ancient civilizations. On the one hand, the feudal system was about to take shape while the classical European slavery system still lingered on. In the year 395 CE, the Roman Empire split into an eastern portion and a western one. The Western Roman Empire fell into decline from 476 CE after invasion by the Germanic people. At the beginning of the 3rd century, the Sasanian Persian Dynasty, established after the overthrow of the last Parthian ruler, began its outbound expansion. Under the attack of the Persians, the Kushan Empire of Central Asia gradually waned and eventually split. At that time, small states sprouted up in ancient India. In the 4th century, the Hephthalites began to invade the Sassanid Empire. From the 5th century to the 6th century CE, the Sassanid Empire was gradually on the wane amid attacks from the Hephthalites and Arabians…

Keywords: China; China's Foreign Trade; Chinese History (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B1 B17 F1 N00 N75 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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