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Sino-African Cultural Exchange
Because of the great distance between East Asia and Africa, contact between China and African lands was limited in early times. It seems to date only to the centuries just prior to and after the onset of the Common Era (1 CE) and was indirect, experienced primarily through maritime or overland trade conducted primarily by Central Asians and Arabs.
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中國與非洲有何淵源?
中國與非洲地理距離相隔十分遙遠,古代中國陸路交通需要經過波斯文明區、印度文明區和兩河流域文明區;海上交通也需要通過印度文明區。因此,中國文明和非洲文明之間的各方面交往難免受其他文明不同程度的遮罩,其後果是減少了交往。
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明代中非交往以貿易為先
十五世紀以來,中國與非洲的文化交流擁有深厚的貿易經濟作為基礎。東非的香料、象牙與中國的瓷器、絲綢等互有大批需求,構成了延綿幾百年的貿易體系,中非文化交流在貿易構築的深厚基礎上開花結果。
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