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Writing Pirates : vernacular fiction and oceans in late Ming China / Yuanfei Wang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Yuanfei, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pirates--History.
- Pirates.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 218 pages)
- Other Title:
- Writing Pirates
- Place of Publication:
- Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. The book shows that the late Ming discourses of pirates and the sea were fluid, ambivalent, and dialogical; they simultaneously entailed imperialistic and personal narratives of the 'other': foreigners, renegades, migrants, and marginalized authors.
- Contents:
- Chinese Discourse of Pirates and the Early Modern Global World
- 1
- I Southeast Asia
- 19
- II Japan
- 85
- III Jiangnan China
- 137
- Stories of the Sea
- 199
- Index
- 205
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (University of Michigan Press, viewed May 13, 2023).
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