Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia Before Steamships

Anthony Reid (Editor), Shiro Momoki (Editor), Kayoko Fujita (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9814311774 / ISBN 13: 9789814311779

Published by ISEAS Publishing, 2013

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Summary:This work of international collaboration takes a comparative approach to the histories of Northeast and Southeast Asia, with contributions from scholars from Japan, Korea and the English-speaking academic world. The new scholarship represented by this volume demonstrates that the vast and growing commercial interactions between the countries of eastern Asia have long historical roots. The so-called "opening" to Western trade in the mid-nineteenth century, which is typically seen as the beginning of this process, is shown to be rather the reversal of a relatively temporary phase of state consolidation in the eighteenth century. Contents: Introduction : maritime interactions in Eastern Asia / MoMoki Shiro and Anthony Reid The periodization of Southeast Asian history, in comparison with that of Northeast Asia / MoMoki Shiro and Hasuda Takashi Merchants, envoys, brokers and pirates : Hokkien connections in pre-modern maritime Asia / James K. Chin An Asian commercial ecumene, 900-1300 CE / Geoffrey Wade The Japanese Archipelago and maritime Asia from the 9th to the 14th centuries / Yamauchi Shinji Saltpetre trade and warfare in early modern Asia / Sun Laichen Shaping maritime East Asia in the 15th and 16th centuries through Choson Korea / Kenneth R. Robinson Shipwreck salvage and survivors' repatriation networks of the East Asian rim in the Qing Dynasty / Liu Shiuh-feng Wei Zhiyan and the subversion of the Sakoku / Iioka Naoko Metal exports and textile imports of Tokugawa Japan in the 17th century : the South Asian connection / Fujita Kayoko.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia Before Steamships
• Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9814311774
• ISBN 13: 9789814311779
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Southeast Asia
  • Japan

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This exemplary work of international collaboration takes a comparative approach to the histories of Northeast and Southeast Asia, with contributions from scholars from Japan, Korea and the Englishspeaking academic world. The new scholarship represented by this volume demonstrates that the vast and growing commercial interactions between the countries of eastern Asia have long historical roots. The so-called "opening" to Western trade in the mid-nineteenth century, which is typically seen as the beginning of this process, is shown to be rather the reversal of a relatively temporary phase of state consolidation in the long eighteenth century.

About the Author

Anthony Reid is a Southeast Asian historian, currently again at the Australian National University after periods at the National University of Singapore (2002 2007, where he was founding Director of the Asia Research Institute) and the University of California, Los Angeles (1999 2002, where he was Professor of History and first Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies). Previously, he worked at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, Canberra (1970 1999) and the University of Malaya (1965 1970), and had visiting positions at Yale University (1973 1974), the University of Auckland (1976), Oxford University (1987), Washington University, St Louis (1989), the University of Hawaii (1996), Cambridge University (2005) and the Social Science Research Training Center, Makassar, Indonesia (1980 1981). He was awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture prize in 2002, largely for Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450 1680 (2 volumes, 1988 1993). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. His other books include The Contest for North Sumatra: Atjeh, the Netherlands and Britain, 1858 1898 (1969), The Indonesian National Revolution, 1945 1950 (1974), The Blood of the People: Revolution and the End of Traditional Rule in Northern Sumatra (1979), Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia (1999), An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra (2004), Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and To Nation by Revolution: Indonesia in the Twentieth Century (2011). He has also edited or co-edited over 20 books, including Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (1997), Asian Freedoms (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Verandah of Violence: The Historical Background of the Aceh Problem (20