Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer

Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China and South East & East Asia

Angela Schottenhammer, Mathieu Torck, Wim De Winter (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-73055-7 (ISBN)

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This volume provides a long-durée overview over China’s politics and commerce including explanations for specific changes, covers a wide range of aspects related to maritime trade in the region and highlights many aspects of Sino-European (Sino-foreign) relations, including knowledge transfer.

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 – from private merchants over pirates to government institutions, including military – 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.

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 “Surgeons and Physicians on the Move in the Asian Waters (15th to 18th Centuries)” (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 “Merchants, Sailors and Privateers: Maritime Affairs between Spain and England during Wartime as Revealed by the Prize Papers“ (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

Angela Schottenhammer

1 Maritime Archaeological Evidence for Trade in the Early and Medieval South China Sea and Political Events in Vietnam

Kimura Jun 木村淳 and Mark Staniforth

2 Southern Han’s “Bad Money” in the Java Sea: Possible Reasons for the Southward Flow of Money in the Early Tenth Century

Li Man 李漫

3 Yuan Maritime Activities and the Role of Knowledge

John Chaffee

4 The Wokou 倭寇 Problem in Yuan China, 1300s–1360s

Ma Guang 馬光

5 Seafaring Knowledge of Ming Literati: the Scholarly Dissemination of Sailing Route Descriptions

Elke Papelitzky

6 Diet, Health and Sanitation in the Military and Naval World of Sixteenth-century China: an Analysis of Qi Jiguang’s Military Manuals

Mathieu Torck

7 The Environment, Perceptions, and Publication of Medical Texts in Fujian during the Ming Period (1368 to 1644)

Xu Zhexin 徐喆昕

8 VOC Mariners’ Nautical Investigations and Hydrographical Charting of the Chinese Coast between 1647 and 1668

Cheng Weichung 鄭維中

9 The Japanese Missing Link and the Establishment of Dutch-Vietnamese Relations

Leonard Blussé

10 The Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Ubaldo Iaccarino

11 Negotiations over the Translation of the Dutch Letter of Credence to the Qianlong Emperor in 1794

Ellen Xiangyu Cai 蔡香玉

12 Comparing the Ostend Company’s Worlds

the Formation of the GIC’s Trade Communities through Intercultural Interactions in Eighteenth-Century China and Bengal

Wim De Winter

13 The Founding of the Nagasaki Tōjin Yashiki 長崎唐人屋敷 in 1689 in Light of Early Tokugawa Foreign Policy

Patrizia Carioti

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Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes ; 9
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	814 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	90-04-73055-9 / 9004730559
ISBN-13	978-90-04-73055-7 / 9789004730557
Zustand	Neuware