Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer
Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China and South East & East Asia
Will be published approx. on 18. December 2025
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-90-04-73055-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 Blusse, 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.
Contributors are: Leonard Blusse, 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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
753 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-73055-7 (9789004730557)
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Persons
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).
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).
Content
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 ??? 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 ??
3 Yuan Maritime Activities and the Role of Knowledge
?John Chaffee
4 The Wokou ?? Problem in Yuan China, 1300s-1360s
?Ma Guang ??
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 ???
8 VOC Mariners' Nautical Investigations and Hydrographical Charting of the Chinese Coast between 1647 and 1668
?Cheng Weichung ???
9 The Japanese Missing Link and the Establishment of Dutch-Vietnamese Relations
?Leonard Blusse
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 ???
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 Tojin Yashiki ?????? in 1689 in Light of Early Tokugawa Foreign Policy
?Patrizia Carioti
Index
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 ??? 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 ??
3 Yuan Maritime Activities and the Role of Knowledge
?John Chaffee
4 The Wokou ?? Problem in Yuan China, 1300s-1360s
?Ma Guang ??
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 ???
8 VOC Mariners' Nautical Investigations and Hydrographical Charting of the Chinese Coast between 1647 and 1668
?Cheng Weichung ???
9 The Japanese Missing Link and the Establishment of Dutch-Vietnamese Relations
?Leonard Blusse
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 ???
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 Tojin Yashiki ?????? in 1689 in Light of Early Tokugawa Foreign Policy
?Patrizia Carioti
Index