Chinese Circulations

by Tagliacozzo, Eric; Chang, Wen-chin; Gungwu, Wang; Reid, Anthony (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822349037
• ISBN10: 0822349035
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-13
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning, and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese Circulationsprovides an unprecedented overview of this trade, its scope, diversity, and complexity. This collection of twenty state-of-the-art essays foregrounds the commodities that have linked China and Southeast Asia over the centuries, from fish, jade, metal, textiles, and cotton, to rice, opium, timber, books, and edible birds#x19; nests. Human labor, the Bible, and the coins used in regional trade are among the more unexpected #x1C;commodities#x1D; considered. In addition to focusing on a certain time period or geographic area, each of the essays explores a particular commodity or class of commodities, following its trajectory from production, exchange and distribution, to consumption. The first four essays in the collection put Chinese mercantile trade with Southeast Asia in broad historical perspective; the other essays appear in chronologically ordered sections covering the precolonial period to the present. Incorporating research conducted in Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Malay, Indonesian, and several Western languages, Chinese Circulationsis a major contribution not only to Sino-Southeast Asian studies but also to the analysis of globalization past and present. Contributors. Leonard Bluss#xE9;, Wen-Chin Chang, Lucille Chia, Bien Chiang, Nola Cooke, Jean DeBernardi, C. Patterson Giersch, Takeshi Hamashita, Kwee Hui Kian, Li Tana, Lin Man-houng, Masuda Erika, Adam McKeown, Anthony Reid , Sun Laichen, Heather Sutherland, Eric Tagliacozzo, Carl A. Trocki, Wang Gungwu, Kevin Woods, Wu Xiao

Author Biography

Eric Tagliacozzo is Associate Professor of History at Cornell University. Wen-Chin Chang is an Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Wang Gungwu is the Chairman of the East Asian Institute and University Professor at the National University of Singapore.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction: The Arc of Historical Commercial Relations between China and Southeast Asia	p. 1
Theoretical
Chinese on the Mining Frontier in Southeast Asia	p. 21
Cotton, Copper, and Caravans: Trade and the Transformation of Southwest China	p. 37
The Social Life of Chinese Labor	p. 62
Opium as a Commodity in the Chinese Nanyang Trade	p. 84
Precolonial
The Lidai Baoan and the Ryukyu Maritime Tributary Trade Network with China and Southeast Asia, the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries	p. 107
Cochinchinese Coin Casting and Circulating in Eighteenth-Century Southeast Asia	p. 130
Import of Prosperity: Luxurious Items Imported from China to Siam during the Thonburi and Early Rattanakosin Periods (1767-1854)	p. 149
A Sino-Indonesian Commodity Chain: The Trade in Tortoiseshell in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	p. 172
Early Colonial
From Baoshi to Feicui: Qing-Burmese Gem Trade, c. 1644-1800	p. 203
Junks to Java: Chinese Shipping to the Nanyang in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century	p. 221
Chinese Books and Printing in the Early Spanish Philippines	p. 259
The End of the ôAge of Commerceö?: Javanese Cotton Trade Industry from the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Centuries	p. 283
High Colonial
The Power of Culture and Its Limits: Taiwanese Merchants' Asian Commodity Flows, 1895-1945	p. 305
Rice Trade and Chinese Rice Millers in the Late-Nineteenth and Early-Nineteenth Centuries: The Case of British Malaya	p. 336
Tonle Sap Processed Fish: From Khmer Subsistence Staple Colonial Export Commodity	p. 360
Moses's Rod: The Bible as a Commodity in Southeast Asia and China	p. 380
Postcolonial
Market Price, Labor Input, and Relation of Production in Sarawak's Edible Birds' Nest Trade	p. 407
A Sino-Southeast Asian Circuit: Ethnohistories of the Marine Goods Trade	p. 432
From a Shiji Episode to the Forbidden Jade Trade during the Socialist Regime in Burma	p. 455
Conflict Timber along the China-Burma Border: Connecting the Global Timber Consumer with Violent Extraction Sites	p. 480
Contributors	p. 507
Index	p. 509
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