Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia before Steamships

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Offshore Asia Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series General Editors: Tansen Sen and Geoff Wade The Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series, established under the publishing programme of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, has been created as a publications avenue for the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre. The Centre focuses on the ways in which Asian polities and societies have interacted over time. To this end, the series invites submissions which engage with Asian historical connectivities. Such works might examine political relations between states; the trading, financial and other networks which connected regions; cultural, linguistic and intellectual interactions between societies; or religious links across and between large parts of Asia. The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) was established as an autonomous organization in 1968. It is a regional centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. The Institute’s research programmes are the Regional Economic Studies (RES, including ASEAN and APEC), Regional Strategic and Political Studies (RSPS), and Regional Social and Cultural Studies (RSCS). ISEAS Publishing, an established academic press, has issued more than 2,000 books and journals. It is the largest scholarly publisher of research about Southeast Asia from within the region. ISEAS Publishing works with many other academic and trade publishers and distributors to disseminate important research and analyses from and about Southeast Asia to the rest of the world. First published in Singapore in 2013 by ISEAS Publishing Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Pasir Panjang Singapore 119614 E-mail: publish@iseas.edu.sg Website: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.© 2013 Institute of Southeast Asian Studies The responsibility for facts and opinions in this publication rests exclusively with the authors and their interpretations do not necessarily reflect the views or the policy of the publishers or their supporters. ISEAS Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Offshore Asia : maritime interactions in Eastern Asia before steamships / edited by Fujita Kayoko, Momoki Shiro and Anthony Reid. 1. Shipping—East Asia—History. 2. Merchant marine—East Asia—History. 3. Navigation—East Asia—History. 4. East Asia—Commerce—History. I. Fujita, Kayoko. II. Momoki, Shiro. III. Reid, Anthony, 1939– HE890.5 O32 2013 ISBN 9789814311779 (soft cover) ISBN 9789814311786 (PDF) Typeset by Superskill Graphics Pte Ltd Printed in Singapore by Refine Printing Pte Ltd ...