Tagliacozzo / Chang Chinese Circulations

Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9357-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 552 Seiten

This collection of twenty essays provides an unprecedented overview of Chinese trade through the centuries, highlighting its scope, diversity, complexity, and the commodities that have linked it with Southeast Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tagliacozzo, Eric

Chang, Wen-chin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Gungwu, Wang

Reid, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps ix

Foreword / Wang Gungwu xi

Introduction: The Arc of Historical Commercial Relations between China and Southeast Asia / Wen-Chin Chang and Eric Tagliacozzo 1

Part I. Theoretical/Longue Durée

Chinese on the Mining Frontier in Southeast Asia / Anthony Reid 21

Cotton, Copper, and Caravans: Trade and the Transformation of Southwest China / C. Patterson Giersch 37

The Social Life of Chinese Labor / Adam McKeown 62

Opium as a Commodity in the Chinese Nanyang Trade / Carl A. Trocki 84

Part II. Precolonial

The Lidai Baoan and the Ryukyu Maritime Tributary Trade Network with China and Southeast Asia, the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries / Takeshi Hamashita 107

Cochinchinese Coin Casting and Circulating in Eighteenth-Century Southeast Asia / Li Tana 131

Import of Prosperity: Luxurious Items Imported from China to Siam during the Thonburi and Early Rattanakosin Periods (1767–1854) / Masuda Erika 149

A Sino-Indonesian Commodity Chain: The Trade in Tortoiseshell in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Heather Sutherland 172

Part III. Early Colonial

From Baoshi to Feicui: Qing-Burmese Gem Trade, c. 1644–1800 / Sun Laichen 203

Junks to Java: Chinese Shipping to the Nanyang in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century / Leonard Blussé 221

Chinese Books and Printing in the Early Spanish Philippines / Lucille Chia 259

The End of the "Age of Commerce"?: Javanese Cotton Trade Industry from the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Centuries / Kwee Hiu Kian 283

Part IV. High Colonial

The Power of Culture and Its Limits: Taiwanese Merchants' Asian Commodity Flows, 1895–1945 / Lin Man-houng 305

Rice Trade and Chinese Rice Millers in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Centuries: The Case of British Malaya / Wu Xiao An 336

Tonle Sap Processed Fish: From Khmer Subsistence Staple to Colonial Export Commodity / Nola Cooke 360

Moses' Rod: The Bible as a Commodity in Southeast Asia and China / Jean DeBernardi 380

Part V. Postcolonial

Market Price, Labor Input, and Relation of Production in Sarawak's Edible Brids' Nest Trade / Bien Chiang 407

A Sino-Southeast Asian Circuit: Ethnohistories of the Marine Goods Trade / Eric Tagliacozzo 432

From a Shiji Episode to the Forbidden Jade Tree during the Socialist Regime in Burma / Wen-Chin Chang 455

Conflict Timber along the China-Burma Border: Connecting the Global Timber Consumer with Violent Extraction Sites / Kevin Woods 480

Contributors 507

Index 509

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Tagliacozzo is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier and co-editor of The Indonesia Reader: History, Culture, Politics, also published by Duke University Press.Wen-Chin Chang is an Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.