The Tongking Gulf Through History

Contents

Preface vii Introduction. The Tongking Gulf Through History: A Geopolitical Overview 1 Li Tana PART I. THE JIAOZHI ERA IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY 1. Textile Crafts in the Gulf of Tongking: The Intersection of Archaeology and History 25 Judith Cameron 2. Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han Period Tongking Gulf 39 Li Tana 3. Han Period Glass Vessels in the Early Tongking Gulf Region 53 Brigitte Borell 4. “The People in Between”: The Li and Lao from the Han to the Sui 67 Michael Churchman PART II. THE JIAOZHI OCEAN AND BEYOND (TENTH TO NINETEENTH CENTURIES) 5. “Slipping Through Holes”: The Late Tenth- and Early Eleventh-Century Sino-Vietnamese Coastal Frontier as a Subaltern Trade Network 87 James A. Anderson Contents 6. Vân Ðôn, the “Mac Gap,” and the End of the Jiaozhi Ocean System: Trade and State in Đai Viêt, Circa 1450–1550 101 John K. Whitmore 7. The Trading Environment and the Failure of Tongking’s Mid-Seventeenth-Century Commercial Resurgence 117 Iioka Naoko 8. Chinese “Political Pirates” in the Seventeenth-Century Gulf of Tongking 133 Niu Junkai and Li Qingxin 9. Chinese Merchants and Mariners in Nineteenth-Century Tongking 143 Vũ Đường Luân and Nola Cooke Notes 161 Glossary 207 List of Contributors 213 Index 215 Acknowledgments 223 vi Contents ...