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Maritime China in Transition, 1750-1850by Wang Gangwu and Ng Chin Keong (eds.)
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004 pp. 397 with index. Contains the following feature articles: R. Bin Wong, "Relationships between the Political Economies of Maritime and Agrarian China, 1750-1850"; Masuda Erika, "The Last Siamese Tributary Missions to China, 1851-1854 and the 'Rejected' Value of Chim Kong"; Dian Murray, "Piracy and China's Maritime Transition, 1750-1850"; Eric Tagliacozzo, "Border-line Legal: Chinese Communities and 'Illicit' Activity in Insular Southeast Asia, Mid- to Late Nineteenth Century"; Lin Man-houng, "The Shift from East Asia to the World: The Role of Maritime Silver in China's Economy in the Seventeenth to Late Eighteenth Centuries"; Pin-tun Chang, "Chinese Miagration to Taiwan in the Eighteenth Century: A Paradox"; John R. Shepherd, "Some Demographic Characteristics of Chinese Immigrant Populations: Lessons for the Study of Taiwan's Population History"; Kuo-tun Ch'en, "Chinese Frontiersmen and Taiwanese Tushengnan in the Local Economy of Taiwan before 1900"; Paul A. van Dyke, "A Reassessment of the China Trade: The Canton Junk Trade as Revealed in Dutch and Swedish Records of the 1750s and 1770s"; Huang Guosheng, "The Chinese Maritime Customs in Transition, 1750-1830"; Roderich Ptak, "Macau: Trade and Society, ca. 1740-1760"; Ng Wai-ming, "Overseas Chinese in the Japan-Southeast Asia Maritime Trade during the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868)"; M. Radin Fernando, "Early Settlers in the Land of Promise: Chinese Traders in the Malay Archipelago in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"; Michael W. Charney, "Esculent Bird's Nest, Tin and Fish: The Overseas Chinese and their Trade in the Eastern Bay of Bengal during hte First half of the Nineteenth Century"; Li Tana, "Rice from Saigon: The Singapore Chinese and the Saigon Trade of the Nineteenth Century", Jane Kate Leonard, "Coastal Merchant Allies in the 1826 Sea Transport Experiment"; Robert Gardella, "Enterprises, Contracts and Partnerships: A Case for Chinese Customary Legal Traditions Bridging the Nanyang"; Chi-Kong Lai, "From Seagoing Junk to Modern Enterprise: The Transition of Steamship Business, 1826-1873"; Leonard Blusse, "Wills, Widows and Witnesses: Executing Financial Dealings with Nanyang. A Glimpse form the Notebook of the Dutch Vice-Consul at Amoy, Carolus Franciscus Martinus de Grijs (1858-1862)" Dhiravat na Pompejra, "Administrative and Military Roles of the Chinese in Siam during an Age of Turmoil, circa 1760-1782"; Peter Borschberg, "Chinese Merchants, Catholich Clerics and Spanish Colonists in British-Occupied Manila, 1762-1764"; Ng Chin Keong, "Shooting the Eagles: Lin Changyi's Agony in the Wake of the Opium War".. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.
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