Abstract
There’s no virtue in cultural ignorance. Yet until recently it’s been easy to view the headlines proclaiming ‘China’s turn to the sea’ as something strikingly different from the image of China that is historically synonymous with the Great Wall, and fundamentally land-bound. More accurately, China’s maritime history has not been marginal, but rather significant, and helps to put in context the country’s recent aggressive, and alarming, maritime expansion.
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