Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700

Xing Hang, Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780824852771
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

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Table of contents

• 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