Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia Before Steamships by Fujita Kayoko, ISBN-13: 978-9814311779

Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia Before Steamships by Fujita Kayoko, ISBN-13: 978-9814311779

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• Publisher: ‎ ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (November 25, 2013)
• Language: ‎ English
• 360 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 9814311774
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-9814311779

This exemplary 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 Englishspeaking 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 long eighteenth century.

Table of Contents:

Preface ix
Contributors xi
1. Introduction: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia 1
Momoki Shirō and Anthony Reid
2. The Periodization of Southeast Asian History,
in Comparison with that of Northeast Asia 16
Momoki Shirō and Has uda Takashi
3. Merchants, Envoys, Brokers and Pirates:
Hokkien Connections in Pre-modern Maritime Asia 53
James K. Chin
4. An Asian Commercial Ecumene, 900–1300 ce 76
Geoffrey WADE
5. The Japanese Archipelago and Maritime Asia from the
9th to the 14th Centuries 112
Yamauchi Shinji
6. Saltpetre Trade and Warfare in Early Modern Asia 130
SUN Laichen
7. Shaping Maritime East Asia in the 15th and
16th Centuries through Chosŏn Korea 185
Kenneth R. Robinson
8. Shipwreck Salvage and Survivors’ Repatriation Networks
of the East Asian Rim in the Qing Dynasty
Liu Shiuh-feng 211
9. Wei Zhiyan and the Subversion of the Sakoku 236
Iioka Naoko
10. Metal Exports and Textile Imports of Tokugawa Japan in
the 17th Century: The South Asian Connection 259
FUJITA Kayoko
Bibliography of Works Cited 277
Index 333

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