Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai : : Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550-1700 / / ed. by Tonio Andrade, Xing Hang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Andrade, Tonio,; Antony, Robert J.,; Batchelor, Robert,; Blussé, Leonard,; Busquets, Anna,; Carioti, Patrizia,; Cheng, Weichung,; Clulow, Adam,; Hang, Xing,; Ho, Dahpon David,; Kang, Peter,; Laver, Michael,; Lu, Cheng-heng,; Ravina, Mark,; Shapinsky, Peter D.,; Tremml-Werner, Birgit,; Wills, John E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Andrade, Tonio,; Hang, Xing,; Matteson, Kieko,; Yang, Anand A.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Andrade, Tonio.; Antony, Robert J.; Batchelor, Robert K.; Blusse, Leonard.; Busquets, Anna.; Carioti, Patrizia.; Cheng, Weichung.; Clulow, Adam.; Hang, Xing.; Ho, Dahpon D.; Kang, Peter.; Laver, Michael.; Lu, Cheng-Heng.; Ravina, Mark.; Shapinsky, Peter D.; Tremml-Werner, Birgit.; Wills, John E.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on the Global Past
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.) :; 10 b&w illustrations

Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventee...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The East Asian Maritime Realm in Global History, 1500-1700
• 1. Neither Here nor There: Trade, Piracy, and the "Space Between" in Early Modern East Asia
• 2. Envoys and Escorts: Representation and Performance among Koxinga's Japanese Pirate Ancestors
• 3. Friend or Foe? Intercultural Diplomacy between Momoyama Japan and the Spanish Philippines in the 1590s
• 4. Maps, Calendars, and Diagrams: Space and Time in Seventeenth-Century Maritime East Asia
• 5. Yiguan's Origins: Clues from Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin Sources
• 6. Between Bureaucrats and Bandits: The Rise of Zheng Zhilong and His Organization, the Zheng Ministry (Zheng Bu)
• 7. The Zheng Regime and the Tokugawa Bakufu: Asking for Japanese Intervention
• 8. Determining the Law of the Sea: The Long History of the Breukelen Case, 1657-1662
• 9. Dreams in the Chinese Periphery: Victorio Riccio and Zheng Chenggong's Regime
• 10. Shame and Scandal in the Family: Dutch Eavesdropping on the Zheng Lineage
• 11. Bridging the Bipolar: Zheng Jing's Decade on Taiwan, 1663-1673
• 12. The Burning Shore: Fujian and the Coastal Depopulation, 1661-1683
• 13. Admiral Shi Lang's Secret Proposal to Return Taiwan to the VOC
• 14. Trade, Piracy, and Resistance in the Gulf of Tonkin in the Seventeenth Century
• 15. Koxinga and His Maritime Regime in the Popular Historical Writings of Post-Cold War Taiwan
• 16. Japan in the Chinese Tribute System
• Glossary
• Contributors
• Index