Boundaries and Beyond : China's Maritime Southeast in Late Imperial Times /
Boundaries and beyond : China's maritime Southeast in late imperial times = 耕海 : 明清东南海与传统藩篱的移位 /
Using the concept of boundaries, physical and cultural, to understand the development of China's maritime southeast in late Imperial times, these linked essays by a senior scholar challenge the usual readings of Chinese history from the centre. The book begins with the boundaries between "...
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Singapore :
NUS Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part One: Maritime East Asia in Historical Perspective
- 1. Commodity and Market: Structure of the Long-distance Trade in the East Asian Seas and Beyond Prior to the Early Nineteenth Century 3
- Part Two: Between "Us" and "Them"
- 2. Maritime Frontiers, Territorial Expansion and Haifang (Coastal Defense) during the Late Ming and High Qing
- 3. Trade, the Sea Prohibition and the "Folangji", 1513-50
- 4. Treaties, Politics and the Limits of Local Diplomacy in Fuzhou in the Early 1850s
- 5. "Shooting the Eagle": Lin Changyi's Agony in the Wake of the Opium War
- 6. Information and Knowledge: Qing China's Perceptions of the Maritime World in the Eighteenth Century
- Part Three: Pushing the Traditional Boundaries
- 7. The Changing Landscape in Rural South Fujian in Late-Ming Times: A Story of the "Little People" (1)
- 8. Gentry-Merchants and Peasant-Peddlers in Offshore Trading Activities, 1522-66: A Story of the "Little People" (2)
- 9. Managing Maritime Affairs in Late-Ming Times
- 10. Liturgical Services and Business Fortunes: Chinese Maritime Merchants in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
- 11. The Amoy Riots of 1852: Coolie Emigration and Sino-British Relations
- Part Four: Transcending Borders
- 12. Expanding Possibilities: Revisiting the Min-Yue Junk-trade Enterprise on the China Coast and in the Nanyang during the Eighteenth to the Mid-nineteenth Centuries
- 13. The Case of Chen Yilao: Maritime Trade and Overseas Chinese in Qing Policies, 1717-54
- 14. "Are These Persons British or Chinese Subjects?": Legal Principles and Ambiguities Regarding the Status of the Straits Chinese as Revealed in the Lee Shun Fah Affair in Amoy, 1847.