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Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer
Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China and South East & East Asia
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Maritime politics changed over time, and so did local perceptions and activities. People involved in maritime commerce had to react to changes in government decrees or instructions. This volume introduces political decisions and their background, agents involved into maritime trade â from private merchants over pirates to government institutions, including military â and practical questions of seafaring (diets, navigation maps, etc.) and diplomacy, but also looks into archaeological evidence and local perceptions of the maritime world, covering the period from ca. 900 to 1800.
Contributors are: Leonard Blussé, Cai Ellen Xiangyu, Patrizia Carioti, John Chaffee, Cheng Weichung, Wim De Winter, Ubaldo Iaccarino, Kimura Jun, Li Man, Ma Guang, Elke Papelitzky, Angela Schottenhammer, Mark Staniforth, Mathieu Torck, and Xu Zhexin.
Contributors are: Leonard Blussé, Cai Ellen Xiangyu, Patrizia Carioti, John Chaffee, Cheng Weichung, Wim De Winter, Ubaldo Iaccarino, Kimura Jun, Li Man, Ma Guang, Elke Papelitzky, Angela Schottenhammer, Mark Staniforth, Mathieu Torck, and Xu Zhexin.
Angela Schottenhammer, Ph.D. (1993), KU Leuven, is Full Professor of Chinese Middle Period and early modern world history. Her publications include China and the Silk Roads (ca. 100 BCE to 1800 CE). Role and Content of its Historical Access to the Outside World (Brill, 2023).
Mathieu Torck, Ph.D. (2006), KU Leuven/Ghent University, is postdoctoral researcher of Early Modern Chinese and world maritime history at KU Leuven and lecturer at Ghent University. His publications include âSurgeons and Physicians on the Move in the Asian Waters (15th to 18th Centuries)â (2022).
Wim De Winter, Ph.D. (2021), KU Leuven, is postdoctoral researcher of Early Modern Asian, world-, and maritime history on the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. His publications include âMerchants, Sailors and Privateers: Maritime Affairs between Spain and England during Wartime as Revealed by the Prize Papersâ (Routledge, 2024).
Mathieu Torck, Ph.D. (2006), KU Leuven/Ghent University, is postdoctoral researcher of Early Modern Chinese and world maritime history at KU Leuven and lecturer at Ghent University. His publications include âSurgeons and Physicians on the Move in the Asian Waters (15th to 18th Centuries)â (2022).
Wim De Winter, Ph.D. (2021), KU Leuven, is postdoctoral researcher of Early Modern Asian, world-, and maritime history on the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. His publications include âMerchants, Sailors and Privateers: Maritime Affairs between Spain and England during Wartime as Revealed by the Prize Papersâ (Routledge, 2024).
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China
âAngela Schottenhammer
1 Maritime Archaeological Evidence for Trade in the Early and Medieval South China Sea and Political Events in Vietnam
âKimura Jun æ¨ææ·³ and Mark Staniforth
2 Southern Hanâs âBad Moneyâ in the Java Sea: Possible Reasons for the Southward Flow of Money in the Early Tenth Century
âLi Man æ漫
3 Yuan Maritime Activities and the Role of Knowledge
âJohn Chaffee
4 The Wokou åå¯ Problem in Yuan China, 1300sâ1360s
âMa Guang 馬å
5 Seafaring Knowledge of Ming Literati: the Scholarly Dissemination of Sailing Route Descriptions
âElke Papelitzky
6 Diet, Health and Sanitation in the Military and Naval World of Sixteenth-century China: an Analysis of Qi Jiguangâs Military Manuals
âMathieu Torck
7 The Environment, Perceptions, and Publication of Medical Texts in Fujian during the Ming Period (1368 to 1644)
âXu Zhexin å¾åæ
8 VOC Marinersâ Nautical Investigations and Hydrographical Charting of the Chinese Coast between 1647 and 1668
âCheng Weichung éç¶ä¸
9 The Japanese Missing Link and the Establishment of Dutch-Vietnamese Relations
âLeonard Blussé
10 The Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
âUbaldo Iaccarino
11 Negotiations over the Translation of the Dutch Letter of Credence to the Qianlong Emperor in 1794
âEllen Xiangyu Cai è¡é¦ç
12 Comparing the Ostend Companyâs Worlds
âthe Formation of the GICâs Trade Communities through Intercultural Interactions in Eighteenth-Century China and Bengal
âWim De Winter
13 The Founding of the Nagasaki TÅjin Yashiki é·å´å人å±æ· in 1689 in Light of Early Tokugawa Foreign Policy
âPatrizia Carioti
Index
Introduction: Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China
âAngela Schottenhammer
1 Maritime Archaeological Evidence for Trade in the Early and Medieval South China Sea and Political Events in Vietnam
âKimura Jun æ¨ææ·³ and Mark Staniforth
2 Southern Hanâs âBad Moneyâ in the Java Sea: Possible Reasons for the Southward Flow of Money in the Early Tenth Century
âLi Man æ漫
3 Yuan Maritime Activities and the Role of Knowledge
âJohn Chaffee
4 The Wokou åå¯ Problem in Yuan China, 1300sâ1360s
âMa Guang 馬å
5 Seafaring Knowledge of Ming Literati: the Scholarly Dissemination of Sailing Route Descriptions
âElke Papelitzky
6 Diet, Health and Sanitation in the Military and Naval World of Sixteenth-century China: an Analysis of Qi Jiguangâs Military Manuals
âMathieu Torck
7 The Environment, Perceptions, and Publication of Medical Texts in Fujian during the Ming Period (1368 to 1644)
âXu Zhexin å¾åæ
8 VOC Marinersâ Nautical Investigations and Hydrographical Charting of the Chinese Coast between 1647 and 1668
âCheng Weichung éç¶ä¸
9 The Japanese Missing Link and the Establishment of Dutch-Vietnamese Relations
âLeonard Blussé
10 The Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
âUbaldo Iaccarino
11 Negotiations over the Translation of the Dutch Letter of Credence to the Qianlong Emperor in 1794
âEllen Xiangyu Cai è¡é¦ç
12 Comparing the Ostend Companyâs Worlds
âthe Formation of the GICâs Trade Communities through Intercultural Interactions in Eighteenth-Century China and Bengal
âWim De Winter
13 The Founding of the Nagasaki TÅjin Yashiki é·å´å人å±æ· in 1689 in Light of Early Tokugawa Foreign Policy
âPatrizia Carioti
Index
Maritime historians and archaeologists; historians of China, Japan, East and Southeast Asia; global historians; economic and military historians; historians of science; historical anthropologists.