Maritime China in Transition, 1750–1850

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