Changing dynamics and mechanisms of maritime Asia in comparative perspectives / Shigeru Akita, Hong Liu, Shiro Momoki, editors.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Part I Maritime History during the Late Early-Modern and Modern Eras -- Surveying and Mapping the Japanese Archipelago in the 19th Century -- The Rise of Silver Dollars: Changing pattern of silver use in 19th century Vietnam -- The Link between Global Market Change and Local Strategy: The case of Vietnamese Cinnamon in the 18th and 19th Century -- Revisiting Theories on the Collapse of the Indian Ocean Maritime Region -- Bilbao merchant and their Trade in the Eighteenth Century: The View of the Private Company and the Privileged Company -- Part II Maritime Asia in Contemporary Eras -- Modern Chinas Imagining of the Nanyang and the Construction of Transnational Asia, with a focus on The Journal of the Nanyang Archipelago Commercial Study Association -- Sergei Witte and the shipping associations: Rethinking the Russian Empire from a maritime viewpoint -- Itinerary, Revolution, and Port Cities: Comparative Study on Maritime Port Cities as Arenas for Asian Revolutionary Movements -- ASPAC or ASEAN? : Institutional Evolution and Survival in Contemporary Maritime Asia.

This book attempts to reveal historical dynamism of transforming contemporary Maritime Asia and to identify key driving forces or agencies for the evolution and transformation of Maritime Asia in the context of global history studies. It seeks to accomplish these goals by connecting different experiences in Maritime Asia both historically from the late early-modern to the present and spatially covering both East and Southeast Asia. Focusing on interactions on and through oceans, seas, and islands, Maritime Asia can deal with any aspects of human society and the nature, including diplomacy, maritime trade, cultural exchange, identity and others. Its interest in supra-regional interactions and networks, migration and diaspora, combined with its microscopic concern with local and trans-border affairs, will surely contribute to the common task of contemporary social sciences and humanities, to relativize the conventional framework based on the nation-state. In this regard, research in Maritime Asia claims to be an integral part of global studies. Part I deals with long-distance trade and diplomatic relations during the late early modern era and its transition to the modern era, mainly in the nineteenth century. Part II focuses on the emergence of transregional and trans-oceanic Asian networks and the original institution-building efforts in the Asia-Pacific region in the twentieth century.

"This volume is the result of joint-research project between Osaka University, Japan and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore,
through four international conferences: (1) The Third Conference of Asian Association of World Historians (AAWH), “Migration in Global History: Peoples, Plants, Plagues, and Ports,” held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in May 2015; (2) The Second Global History Consortium Conference on “Globalization from East Asian Perspectives” at Osaka University, Japan in March 2016; (3) Special Osaka-NTU Workshop on “Changing Dynamics and Mechanisms of Maritime Asia in comparative perspectives” at Osaka University in January 2018, and (4) The Fourth Conference of Asian Association of World Historians (AAWH), “Creating World Histories from Asian Perspectives,” at Osaka University in January 2019....." 

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War, trade and piracy in the China Seas, 1622-1683 / by Cheng Wei-chung.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-355) and index.

Introduction: The Missing Link -- The tributary system challenged -- Nicolas Iquan before 1627 -- The survival game of the mercenaries, 1628-1631 -- The establishment of the An-Hai trading emporium, 1630-1633 -- Stormy weather at the imperial court and on the south China coast, 1632-1633 -- The winding ways towards the western ocean -- The risk of politics and the politics of risk, 1636-1640 -- In search of silver in a changing world, 1640-1646 -- The open coast of the Chinese empire, 1646-1650 -- Fukienese exceptionalism transformed into a political project, 1650-1654 -- The passions of a merchant prince, 1654-1657 -- From defeat to victory, 1658-1662 -- All acknowledged by the kings, 1663-1667 -- Monopoly lost, 1669-1683 -- Conclusion: defensive and aggressive monopolies.

Approaching its demise, the Ming imperial administration enlisted members of the Cheng family as mercenaries to help in the defense of the coastal waters of Fukien. Under the leadership of Cheng Chih-lung, also known as Nicolas Iquan, and with the help of the local gentry, these mercenaries became the backbone of the empire's maritime defense and the protectors of Chinese commercial interests in the East and South China Seas. The fall of the Ming allowed Cheng Ch'eng-kung-alias Coxinga-and his sons to create a short-lived but independent seaborne regime in China's southeastern coastalprovinces that competed fiercely, if only briefly, with Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and English merchants during the early stages of globalization.

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