Maritime China in Transition, 1750–1850

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Contents......Page 7 Introduction......Page 10 Maritime China in Transition......Page 12 Relationships between the Political Economies of Maritime and Agrarian China, 1750-1850......Page 28 The Last Siamese Tributary Missions to China, 1851-1854 and the "Rejected" Value of Chim kong......Page 42 Piracy and China's Maritime Transition,1750-1850......Page 52 "Border-line Legal": Chinese Communities and "Iliicit" Activity in Insular Southereast Asia, Mid- to Late Nineteenth Century......Page 70 The Shift from East Asia to the World: The Role of Maritime Silver in China's Economy in the seventeenth to Late Eighteenth Centuries......Page 86 Chinese Migration to Taiwan in the Eighteenth century : A Paradox......Page 106 Some Demographic Characteristics of Chinese Immigrant Populations: Lessons for the study of Taiwan's Population History......Page 124 Chinese Frontiersmen and Taiwanede Tushengnan in the Local Economy of Taiwan before 1900......Page 148 A reassessment of the China Trade: The Canton Junk Trade as Revealed in Duthch and Swedish Records of the 1750s to the 1770s......Page 160 The Chinese Maritime Customs in Transition, 1750 to 1830......Page 178 Macau: Trade and Society, circa 1740-1760......Page 200 Overseas Chinese in the Japan-Southeas Asia Maritime Trade during the Tokugawa Period(1630-1868)......Page 222 Early Settlers in the Land of Promise: Chinese Traders in the Malay Archipelago in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth century......Page 236 Esculent Bird's nest, Tin, and Fish: The Overseas Chinese and Their Trade in the Eastern Bay of Bengal( Coastal Burma) during he First Half of the Nineteenth Century......Page 254 Rice from Saigon: The singapore Chinese and the Saigon Trade of the Nieteenth Century......Page 270 Coastal Merchant Allies in the 1826 Sea Transport Experiment......Page 280 Enterprises, Contracts and Partnerships: A Case for Chinese Customary Legal Traditions Bridging the Nanyang......Page 296 The Transition of Steamship Business, 1826-1873......Page 308 Wills, Widows and Witnesses: Executing Financial Dealings with the Nanyang : A Glimpse from the Notebook of the Dutch Vice-Consul at Amoy, Carolus Franciscus Martinus de Grijs(1858-1862)......Page 326 Administrative and Military Roles of the Chinese in Siam during an Age of Turmoil, circa 1760-1782......Page 344 Chinese Merchants, Catholic Clerics and Spanish Colonists in British-Occupied Manila, 1762-1764......Page 364 Shooting the Eagles : Lin Changyi's Agony in the Wake of the Opium War......Page 382 Glossary - Index......Page 396