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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.

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Author:   Angela Schottenhammer ,  Mathieu Torck ,  Wim De Winter
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   9
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.814kg
ISBN:  

9789004730557

ISBN 10:   9004730559
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   11 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Index

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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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