Title: Sea rovers, silver, and samurai : maritime East Asia in global history, 1550-1700 /
Authors: Andrade, Tonio; Hang, Xing, 1982-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Merchant marine East Asia History.; Navigation East Asia History.; Piracy East Asia History.; Merchant marine; Navigation; Piracy; East Asia History; East Asia History; East Asia
Abstract: "Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a region of international trade for centuries, but from 1550 to 1700 that the velocity and scale of commerce began to increase dramatically. Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese smugglers and pirates forged autonomous networks, or in the case of the Zheng family of southeastern China and Taiwan, maritime-focused polities. They competed and cooperated with one another and with ambitious state-builders, such as the Manchu Qing, Tokugawa Japan, the Iberians, and the Dutch. ... Consider, for example that European mariners, whom we associate with opening oceanic trade routes, were far from the most important actors in East and Southeast Asia. During this period, it was the Chinese whose traders carried more in volume and value than any other nation. The authors of this volume offer a new perspective on global history, because the China Seas were key to forging the connections of early globalization, as important as the Atlantic World and the Indian Ocean basin." -- Provided by the publisher.
Contents: Neither here nor there : trade, piracy, and the "space between" in early modern East Asia / Michael Laver -- Envoys and escorts : representation and performance among Koxinga's Japanese pirate ancestors / Peter D. Shapinsky -- Friend or foe? : intercultural diplomacy between Momoyama Japan and the Spanish Philippines in the 1590s / Birgit Tremml-Werner -- Maps, calendars, and diagrams : space and time in seventeenth-century maritime East Asia / Robert Batchelor -- Yiguan's origins : clues from Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin sources / John E. Wills Jr. -- Between bureaucrats and bandits : the rise of Zheng Zhilong and his organization, the Zheng Ministry (Zheng Bu) / Cheng-heng Lu -- The Zheng regime and the Tokugawa bakufu : asking for Japanese intervention / Patrizia Carioti -- Determining the law of the sea : the long history of the Breukelen Case, 1657-1662 / Adam Clulow -- Dreams in the Chinese periphery : Victorio Riccio and Zheng Chenggong's regime / Anna Busquets -- Shame and scandal in the family : Dutch eavesdropping on the Zheng lineage / Leonard Bluss -- Bridging the bipolar : Zheng Jing's decade on Taiwan, 1663-1673 / Xing Hang -- The burning shore : Fujian and the coastal depopulation, 1661-1683 / Dahpon David Ho -- Admiral Shi Lang's secret proposal to return Taiwan to the VOC / Weichung Cheng -- Trade, piracy, and resistance in the Gulf of Tonkin in the seventeenth century / Robert J. Antony -- Koxinga and his maritime regime in the popular historical writings of post-Cold War Taiwan / Peter Kang -- Japan in the Chinese tribute system / Mark Ravina.