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Title Elusive pirates, pervasive smugglers : violence and clandestine trade in the Greater China Seas / edited by Robert J. Antony
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction : the shadowy world of the greater China Seas / Robert J. Anthony -- Violence at sea : unpacking "piracy" in the claims of states over Asian seas / Anthony Reid -- From sea bandits to sea lords : nonstate violence and pirate identities in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Japan / Peter D. Shapinsky -- Merchanges, smugglers, and pirates : multinational clandestine trade on the South China coast, 1520-50 / James K. Chin -- Pirates, gunpowder, and Christianity in late sixteenth-century Japan / Maria Grazia Petrucci -- At the crossroads : Limahon and Wakō in sixteenth-century Philippies / Igawa Kenji -- Piracy and coastal security in southeastern China, 1600-1780 / Paola Calanca -- Piracy and the shadown economy in the South China Sea, 1780-1810 / Robert J. Anthony -- Poor but not pirates : the Tsushima domain and foreign relations in early modern Japan / Robert Hellyer -- The business of violence : piracy around Riau, Lingga, and Singapore, 1820-40 / Ota Atsushi -- Smuggling in the South China Sea : alternate histories of a nonstate space in the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries / Eric Tagliacozzo
Summary This volume describes and critically analyzes piracy and smuggling in the Greater China Seas region from the 16th century to the present. It takes a radical departure from the standard terra-centred histories by placing the seas at the centre rather than at the margins of our inquiries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index
Notes English
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Subject Piracy -- China Sea -- History
Smuggling -- China Sea -- History
Sea-power -- China Sea -- History
TRUE CRIME -- General.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Piracy
Sea-power
Smuggling
SUBJECT China Sea -- History
Subject Pacific Ocean -- China Sea
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Antony, Robert J., editor.
LC no. 2010402307
ISBN 9789882206083
9882206085
Other Titles Violence and clandestine trade in the Greater China Seas