Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia before Steamships

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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 HASUDA 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 vi Contents ...