Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia Before Steamships

Language: English

Published by ISEAS Publishing, 2013

9814311774 / 9789814311779

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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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Title
Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia Before Steamships
Author
Anthony Reid (Editor), Shiro Momoki (Editor), Kayoko Fujita (Editor)
Publisher
ISEAS Publishing
Publication year
2013
Condition
New
Binding
Soft cover
Language
English
ISBN 10
9814311774
ISBN 13
9789814311779
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Japan, Southeast Asia, Travel

Joseph Burridge Books

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