Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer

Angela Schottenhammer, Ph.D. (1993), KU Leuven, is Full Professor of Chinese Middle Period and early modern world history. Her publications include China and the Silk Roads (ca. 100 BCE to 1800 CE). Role and Content of its Historical Access to the Outside World (Brill, 2023). Mathieu Torck, Ph.D. (2006), KU Leuven/Ghent University, is postdoctoral researcher of Early Modern Chinese and world maritime history at KU Leuven and lecturer at Ghent University. His publications include “Surgeons and Physicians on the Move in the Asian Waters (15th to 18th Centuries)” (2022). Wim De Winter, Ph.D. (2021), KU Leuven, is postdoctoral researcher of Early Modern Asian, world-, and maritime history on the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. His publications include “Merchants, Sailors and Privateers: Maritime Affairs between Spain and England during Wartime as Revealed by the Prize Papers“ (Routledge, 2024).

• List of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern ChinaAngela Schottenhammer 1 Maritime Archaeological Evidence for Trade in the Early and Medieval South China Sea and Political Events in VietnamKimura Jun 木村淳 and Mark Staniforth 2 Southern Han’s “Bad Money” in the Java Sea: Possible Reasons for the Southward Flow of Money in the Early Tenth CenturyLi Man 李漫3 Yuan Maritime Activities and the Role of KnowledgeJohn Chaffee4 The Wokou 倭寇 Problem in Yuan China, 1300s–1360sMa Guang 馬光5 Seafaring Knowledge of Ming Literati: the Scholarly Dissemination of Sailing Route DescriptionsElke Papelitzky 6 Diet, Health and Sanitation in the Military and Naval World of Sixteenth-century China: an Analysis of Qi Jiguang’s Military ManualsMathieu Torck 7 The Environment, Perceptions, and Publication of Medical Texts in Fujian during the Ming Period (1368 to 1644)Xu Zhexin 徐喆昕8 VOC Mariners’ Nautical Investigations and Hydrographical Charting of the Chinese Coast between 1647 and 1668Cheng Weichung 鄭維中9 The Japanese Missing Link and the Establishment of Dutch-Vietnamese RelationsLeonard Blussé 10 The Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesUbaldo Iaccarino 11 Negotiations over the Translation of the Dutch Letter of Credence to the Qianlong Emperor in 1794Ellen Xiangyu Cai 蔡香玉12 Comparing the Ostend Company’s Worldsthe Formation of the GIC’s Trade Communities through Intercultural Interactions in Eighteenth-Century China and BengalWim De Winter13 The Founding of the Nagasaki Tōjin Yashiki 長崎唐人屋敷 in 1689 in Light of Early Tokugawa Foreign PolicyPatrizia CariotiIndex