Book/Printed Material Boundaries and beyond : China's maritime Southeast in late imperial times = Geng hai : Ming Qing dong nan hai yu chuan tong fan li de yi wei 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 / / China's maritime Southeast in late imperial times / Geng hai : Ming Qing dong nan hai yu chuan tong fan li de yi wei
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Title
- Boundaries and beyond : China's maritime Southeast in late imperial times = Geng hai : Ming Qing dong nan hai yu chuan tong fan li de yi wei
Other Title
- 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 /
- China's maritime Southeast in late imperial times
- Geng hai : Ming Qing dong nan hai yu chuan tong fan li de yi wei
Names
- Ng, Chin-Keong, author
- NUS Press, publisher
Created / Published
- Singapore : NUS Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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.
Headings
- - Merchant marine--China--History
- - China--Commerce--History
- - China--Foreign economic relations--Asia--History
- - China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
- - China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
Notes
- - Includes bibliographical references (pages 474-495) and index.
- - In English.
- - Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
Medium
- 1 electronic resource (xiv, 499 pages, 3 pages of plates )
Call Number/Physical Location
- HF3834
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2019667222
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