Chinese circulations : capital, commodities, and networks in Southeast Asia / Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang, eds. ; foreword by Wang Gungwu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tagliacozzo, Eric, author.

Chang, Wen-Chin, 1964- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Commerce--Southeast Asia.

China.

Southeast Asia--Commerce--China.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (554 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC Duke University Press 2011

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of twenty essays provides an unprecedented overview of Chinese trade through the centuries, highlighting its scope, diversity, complexity, and the commodities that have linked it with Southeast Asia.

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 Circulations provides an unprecedented overview of this trade, its scope, diversity, and complexity. This collection of twenty groundbreaking essays foregrounds the commodities that have linked China and Southeast Asia over the centuries, including fish, jade, metal, textiles, cotton, rice, opium, timber, books, and edible birds' nests. Human labor, the Bible, and the coins used in regional trade are among the more unexpected commodities 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, through exchange and distribution, to consumption. The first four pieces 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 Circulations is a major contribution not only to Sino-Southwest Asian studies but also to the analysis of globalization past and present

Contents:

Introduction: the arc of historical commercial relations between China and Southeast Asia / Wen-Chin Chang and Eric Tagliacozzo

Chinese on the mining frontier in Southeast Asia / Anthony Reid

Cotton, copper, and caravans : trade and the transformation of Southwest China / C. Patterson Giersch

The social life of Chinese labor / Adam McKeown

Opium as a commodity in the Chinese Nanyang trade / Carl A. Trocki

The lidai baoan and the Ryukyu maritime tributary trade network with China and Southeast Asia, the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries / Takeshi Hamashita

Cochinchinese coin casting and circulating in eighteenth-century Southeast Asia / Li Tana

Import of prosperity : luxurious items imported from China to Siam during the Thonburi and early Rattanakosin periods (1767-1854) / Masuda Erika

A Sino-Indonesian commodity chain : the trade in tortoiseshell in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Heather Sutherland

From Baoshi to Feicui : Qing-Burmese gem trade, c. 1644-1800 / Sun Laichen

Junks to java : Chinese shipping to the Nanyang in the second half of the eighteenth century / Leonard Bluss

Chinese books and printing in the early Spanish Philippines / Lucille Chia

The end of the "age of commerce"? : Javanese cotton trade industry from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries / Kwee Hui Kian

The power of culture and its limits : Taiwanese merchants' Asian commodity flows, 1895-1945 / Lin Man-houng

Rice trade and Chinese rice millers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries : the case of British Malaya / Wu Xiao An

Tonle sap processed fish: from Khmer subsistence staple to colonial export commodity / Nola Cooke

Moses' rod: the Bible as a commodity in Southeast Asia and China / Jean DeBernardi

Market price, labor input, and relation of production in Sarawak's edible birds' nest trade / Bien Chiang

A Sino-Southeast Asian circuit : ethnohistories of the marine goods trade / Eric Tagliacozzo

From a Shiji episode to the forbidden jade trade during the socialist regime in Burma / Wen-Chin Chang

Conflict timber along the China-Burma border : connecting the global timber consumer with violent extraction sites / Kevin Woods.

Notes:

Some text in Chinese and other Southeast Asian languages.

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-25207-4

9786613252074

0-8223-9357-3

OCLC:

816861329