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Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Year

2016

eBook ISBN

9780824852771

Edition

Topic

History

Subtopic

Asian History

Index

History

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
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