Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers: Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater China Seas

Contributors

Robert J. Antony, who earned his doctorate in history at the University of Hawai’i, is a professor of Chinese and comparative history at the University of Macau. His research focuses on Asian and world maritime history, and his recent publications include Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China (2003) and Pirates in the Age of Sail (2007). He is currently working on a book on the evolution of modern piracy in South China from 1837 to 1937. Paola Calanca is an associate professor of history at the École Française d’ExtrêmeOrient . Most of her current work, based on extensive archival research in Beijing and Taiwan, examines the theoretical organization and actual performance of the Ming and Qing navies. Over the past few years, she has been conducting fieldwork in China’s coastal provinces, studying coastal defense works and collecting local materials, in particular inscriptions relating to social and economic life. Her most recent book is Piraterie et contrebande au Fujian du XVème au début du XIXème siècle (2008). James K. Chin is a research fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies, the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include the history of maritime Asia, Chinese international migration and diaspora, and China-Southeast Asian relations. He has published more than sixty journal articles and book chapters, and is currently working on a book on the Chinese commercial diaspora in maritime Asia before 1800. Robert Hellyer, who received his doctorate at Stanford University, is an assistant professor of history at Wake Forest University. He specializes in early modern and modern Japanese history. His most recent publication is Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640–1868 (2010). He is currently working on a book about Japan’s tea export trade in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Contributors xii Contributors Igawa Kenji obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo, and is currently an associate professor in the Graduate School of Letters at Osaka University. He specializes in the history of international relations in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Asia. In 2001, the Society of Japanese History awarded him its prize for his studies. His current research concerns Europe–Southeast Asia–Japan relations. In 2007, he published Daikōkai Jidai no Higashi Ajia [East Asia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries]. Ota Atsushi obtained his Ph.D. from Leiden University and is an assistant research fellow at the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences,Academia Sinica, Taipei. He specializes in the maritime history of Southeast Asia. His recent publications include Changes of Regime and Social Dynamics in West Java: Society, State, and the Outer World of Banten, 1750–1830 (2006) and “Eighteenth-Century Southeast Asia and World Economy,” in Momoki Shiro (ed.), Kaiiki Ajia-shi nyūmon [Introduction to history of maritimeAsia] (2008). He is currently researching maritime violence and the changing trade order around the Malacca Strait from the 1780s to the 1840s. Maria Grazia Petrucci is a doctoral student in the University of British Columbia, specializing in Japanese history. Her research focuses on sixteenth-century Japanese piracy,Christianity,andmercantileassociations.Sheisalsointerestedincomparisons between Japanese piracy and Mediterranean piracy in the sixteenth century. Her contribution to this volume is part of her dissertation. Anthony Reid is professor emeritus in the Department of Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University. His books include Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450–1680, 2 vols. (1988–93); Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia (1999); An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra (2004); and Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia (forthcoming). Peter D. Shapinsky is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield, where he teaches East Asian history. He is completing a book, Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Exchange in Medieval Japan, which interprets late medieval Japanese history (c.1300–1600) from the perspective of the sea by exploring the roles of seafarers labeled as pirates in the maritime networks linking Japan and Eurasia. Eric Tagliacozzo is an associate professor of history at Cornell University, where he teaches Southeast Asian history and Asian studies. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier, xiii Contributors 1865–1915 (2005), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize...