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- Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia
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- 2011
- Published by: Duke University Press
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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-Southeast Asian studies but also to the analysis of globalization past and present.
Contributors. Leonard Blussé, Wen-Chin Chang, Lucille Chia, Bien Chiang, Nola Cooke, Jean DeBernardi, C. Patterson Giersch, Takeshi Hamashita, Kwee Hui Kian, Li Tana, Lin Man-houng, Masuda Erika, Adam McKeown, Anthony Reid , Sun Laichen, Heather Sutherland, Eric Tagliacozzo, Carl A. Trocki, Wang Gungwu, Kevin Woods, Wu Xiao
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- List of Maps
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xvi
- Part I. Theoretical/Longue Durée
- The Social Life of Chinese Labor
- pp. 62-83
- Part II. Precolonial
- Part III. Early Colonial
- Part IV. High Colonial
- Part V. Postcolonial
- Contributors
- pp. 507-508
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822393573
Related ISBN(s)
9780822348818, 9780822349037, 9781478091486
MARC Record
OCLC
1132229381
Pages
552
Launched on MUSE
2020-02-05
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY
Copyright
2011