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.
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 Hans 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, 1300s1360s
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 Jiguangs 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 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
12 Comparing the Ostend Companys Worlds
the Formation of the GICs Trade Communities through Intercultural
Interactions in Eighteenth-Century China and Bengal
Wim De Winter
13 The Founding of the Nagasaki Tjin Yashiki in 1689 in Light of
Early Tokugawa Foreign Policy
Patrizia Carioti
Index
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).
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