In Asian Waters Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Languages
1. South from Nagasaki, West from Hormuz
Part I. Maritime Connections
	Preface: In Asian Waters
	2. From China to Africa: Prolegomenon
	3. Vietnam’s Maritime Trade Orbit
Part II. Bodies of Water
	Preface: The Imbricated Histories of Two Seas
	4. Smuggling in the South China Sea: Illicit Histories
	5. The Center and Its Margins: How the Indian Ocean Became “British\"
Part III. Religion on the Tides
	Preface: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity in Asian Waters
	6. Passage of Amulets: Hindu-Buddhist Transmissions in the Bay of Bengal
	7. Zamboanga, Mindanao: Islam and Christianity at the End of the World
Part IV. Cities and the Sea
	Preface: Urbanism Connects: The Life of Asian Cities
	8. The Morphogenesis of Port Cities in “Greater Southeast Asia\"
	9. From Aden to Bombay, from Singapore to Pusan: Colonial Circuits
Part V. The Bounty of the Oceans
	Preface: The Environmental History of Asian Seas
	10. Fins, Slugs, Pearls: Marine Products and Sino-Southeast Asia
	11. On the Docks: How India’s Southern Coasts Became “Spice Central\"
Part VI. Technologies of the Sea
	Preface: The Technological Imperative in the Maritime History of Asia
	12. Foucault’s Other Panopticon, or Lighting Colonial Southeast Asia
	13. Of Maps and Men: Hydrography and Empire
	14. If China Rules the Waves
Appendix A: Base Chronologies for Asia’s Seas
Appendix B: Written-Down Oral Histories of the Swahili Coasts
Appendix C: Fieldwork Excerpt from Sana’a: An Arab Herbalist
Appendix D: Indian Spice Traders in India and Malaysia
Appendix E: Dutch East Indies Regulations with Local Maritime States
Appendix F: Chinese Marine Goods Traders in East and Southeast Asia
Appendix G: Chinese Marine Products Newspaper Clipping, Taipei, Taiwan
Bibliography
Index