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Acknowledgements The chapters in this volume were presented in 2005 at an international conference hosted and organised by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. We are grateful to the staff and Director of SASS, Professor Li Yihai for the hospitality and professional organisation of the conference. We would also like to acknowledge the financial support we have received from the Asia-Europe Workshop Series, a programme run and sponsored by the European Alliance for Asian Studies and the Asia-Europe Foundation (Singapore). The editors, publisher and the author wish to thank Brill Publishers for permission to use copyright material from Hoang Anh Tuan’s book Silk for Silver: Dutch-Vietnamese Relations, 1637–1700 (2007b). Every effort was made to trace the copyright holders of photographs and maps. Special thanks are due to Wim Stokhof, the Director of the International Institute for Asian Studies at the time of the conference, who was the initiator and motivator of the institute’s scientific project on maritime piracy as well as the ISEAS-IIAS Series of which this volume is part. We would also like to thank Rosemary Robson-McKillop for English language editing of the introduction and two chapters of this volume. The Editors, John Kleinen and Manon Osseweijer 00 PiratesPrelims.indd 7 7/12/10 3:51:32 PM 00 PiratesPrelims.indd 8 7/12/10 3:51:32 PM ...

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