The Nanhai Trade

The Nanhai Trade
Author: Gungwu Wang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1959
Genre: China
ISBN:

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The Nanhai Trade

The Nanhai Trade
Author: Gungwu Wang
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Academic
Total Pages: 165
Release: 1958
Genre: China
ISBN: 9789812102553

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This book explores the ancient maritime trade between China and Southeast Asia. It examines the various features of the trade with Southeast Asia, especially the economic background as well as the Chinese imperial and regional attitudes towards it during the eleven centuries before the foundation of the Sung dynasty in 960-roughly the period from the Han dynasty to that of the T'ang.

China, the Portuguese, and the Nanyang

China, the Portuguese, and the Nanyang
Author: Roderich Ptak
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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Under the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, China's maritime trade went through several stages of rapid expansion. This concerns both activities initiated by the central government and private seafaring: Chinese ships would sail to ports in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, and foreign merchants would come to China, often declaring themselves as tribute envoys. In the early 16th century, the Portuguese made contact with the Middle Kingdom, leading to the foundation of Macao in the 1550s. The present volume, the third collection by Roderich Ptak, explores important structural features related to China's maritime ventures and Luso-Chinese relations. It also discusses the perception of maritime space in late medieval Chinese texts and the importance of trade routes, especially the so-called eastern route from Fujian via Luzon to the Sulu 'zone'. The third section presents different 'key' regions as seen through Chinese eyes: Hainan, the coral island in the South China Sea, Barus on Sumatra, and finally Wang Dayuan's chapters on the Kerala coast.

The Archaeological Excavation of the 10th Century

The Archaeological Excavation of the 10th Century
Author: Michael Flecker
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

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In 1997 Michael Flecker investigated a shipwreck in the north Java sea. The wreck comprised the remains of a mid 10th-century ship with its cargo of thousands of ceramic and non-ceramic artefacts. This report describes the methodology and aims of the underwater operation, discusses the finds that were recovered and places these within the context of maritime archaeology in southeast Asia. Flecker evaluates the evidence from the Intan shipwreck alongside contemporary historical information about sea travel, ports, trade routes and cargoes.

Southeast Asia-China Interactions

Southeast Asia-China Interactions
Author: Geoff Wade
Publisher:
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2007
Genre: China
ISBN:

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The relations between the societies and states of Southeast Asia and China have been of enormous significance to both these regions, extending back for literally thousands of years. This useful single-valume edition of key studies on Southeast Asia-China interactions, which were first published in the 'Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society' (and its precursors), includes classics such as Wang Gungwu's 'The Nanhai Trade' and Paul Wheatley's 'Geographical Notes On Some Commodities Involved in Sung Maritime Trade'. In this compedium, 18 studies examine political, economic, and social interaction as well as the flows of people and technologies which have tied these regions together over the period.

The Old China Trade

The Old China Trade
Author: Foster Rhea Dulles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1930
Genre: China
ISBN:

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The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China

The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China
Author: John W. Chaffee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108640095

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In this major new history of Muslim merchants and their trade links with China, John W. Chaffee uncovers 700 years of history, from the eighth century, when Muslim communities first established themselves in southeastern China, through the fourteenth century, when trade all but ceased. These were extraordinary and tumultuous times. Under the Song and the Mongols, the Muslim diaspora in China flourished as legal and economic ties were formalized. At other times the Muslim community suffered hostility and persecution. Chaffee shows how the policies of successive dynastic regimes in China combined with geopolitical developments across maritime Asia to affect the fortunes of Muslim communities. He explores social and cultural exchanges, and how connections were maintained through faith and a common acceptance of Muslim law. This ground breaking contribution to the history of Asia, the early Islamic world, and to maritime history explores the networks that helped to shape the pre-modern world.

The East Asian Mediterranean

The East Asian Mediterranean
Author: Angela Schottenhammer
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2008
Genre: East Asia
ISBN: 9783447058094

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The present volume is a collection of papers originally presented for the concluding conference of the research project The East Asian 'Mediterranean' entitled "The East Asian 'Mediterranean' - Maritime Crossroads of Culture, Commerce and Human Migration" and held at Munich University from November 2-3, 2007. The papers in this volume have been arranged according to thematical sections, that is "Mediterranean Seas - from East Asia to East Africa", "Merchants and merchant networks", "Commodities and transport", and finally "Trade parameters and perceptions" - each section covering a different aspect of trade, diplomacy and perceptions across and within the East Asian and Asian waters. In order to show the variety and the different qualities of interaction and exchange relations we have selected case studies with a main focus lying on Sino-Japanese, Sino-Ryukyuan, and Japanese-Korean relations as well as the involvement of Muslim merchants in the Asian waters. The volume in particular tries to draw the readers' attention to the necessity and the advantages of international cooperation and interaction investigating topics of Asian history.

Global History and New Polycentric Approaches

Global History and New Polycentric Approaches
Author: Manuel Perez Garcia
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9811040532

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its emergence in Asia with the rapid development of the Chinese economy motivation to legitimate the current uniqueness of the history and economy of the nation. It contributes to the revitalization of the field of global history in Chinese historiography, which have been dominated by national narratives and promotes a debate to open new venues in which important features such as scholarly mobility, diversity and internationalization are firmly rooted, putting aside national specificities. Dealing with new approaches on the use of empirical data by framing the proper questions and hypotheses and connecting western and eastern sources, this text opens a new forum of discussion on how global history has penetrated in western and eastern historiographies, moving the pivotal axis of analysis from national perspectives to open new venues of global history.