Water frontier : commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880
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Water frontier : commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880
（World social change）
Rowman & Littlefield , Singapole University Press, 2004
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Description
Water Frontier focuses principally on southwest Indochina (from modern southern Vietnam into eastern Cambodia and southwestern Thailand), which it calls the Lower Mekong region. The book's excellent contributors argue that, during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this area formed a single trading zone woven together by the regular itineraries of thousands of large and small junk traders. This zone in turn formed a regional component of the wider trade networks that linked southern China to all of Southeast Asia. This is the 'water frontier' of the title, a sparsely settled coastal and riverine frontier region of mixed ethnicities and often uncertain settlements in which the waterborne trade and commerce of a long string of small ports was essential to local life. This innovative book uses the water frontier concept to reposition old nation-state oriented histories and decenter modern dominant cultures and ethnicities to reveal a different local past. It expands and deepens our understanding of the time and place as well as of the multiple roles played by Chinese sojourners, settlers, and junk traders in their interactions with a kaleidoscope of local peoples.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Water Frontier: An Introduction Part 2 Part I: Permeable Frontiers: Chinese Trade and Traders in the Region Chapter 3 Chinese Trade and Southeast Asian Economic Expansion in the Later Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: An Overview Chapter 4 Eighteenth-Century Chinese Pioneers on the Water Frontier of Indochina Chapter 5 The Junk Trade Between South China and Nguyen Vietnam in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Part 6 Part II: Commercial Eddies and Flows Chapter 7 The Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Mekong Delta in the Regional Trade System Chapter 8 The Nguyen Dynasty's Policy toward Chinese on the Water Frontier in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Chapter 9 Siam and the Contest for Control of the Trans-Mekong Trading Networks from the Late Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Centuries Chapter 10 Ships and Shipbuilding in the Mekong Delta, c. 1750-1840 Part 11 Part III: Beyond the Water Frontier Chapter 12 Water World: Chinese and Vietnamese on the Riverine Water Frontier, from Ca Mau to Tonle Sap (c. 1850-1884) Chapter 13 The Internationalization of Chinese Revenue Farming Networks Chapter 14 Appendix A: A "Coastal Route" from the Lower Mekong Delta to Terengganu Chapter 15 Appendix B: Glossary
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: pbk ISBN 9780742530836
Description
Water Frontier focuses principally on southwest Indochina (from modern southern Vietnam into eastern Cambodia and southwestern Thailand), which it calls the Lower Mekong region. The book's excellent contributors argue that, during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this area formed a single trading zone woven together by the regular itineraries of thousands of large and small junk traders. This zone in turn formed a regional component of the wider trade networks that linked southern China to all of Southeast Asia. This is the "water frontier" of the title, a sparsely settled coastal and riverine frontier region of mixed ethnicities and often uncertain settlements in which the waterborne trade and commerce of a long string of small ports was essential to local life. This innovative book uses the water frontier concept to reposition old nation-state oriented histories and decenter modern dominant cultures and ethnicities to reveal a different local past. It expands and deepens our understanding of the time and place as well as of the multiple roles played by Chinese sojourners, settlers, and junk traders in their interactions with a kaleidoscope of local peoples.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Water Frontier: An Introduction Part 2 Part I: Permeable Frontiers: Chinese Trade and Traders in the Region Chapter 3 Chinese Trade and Southeast Asian Economic Expansion in the Later Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: An Overview Chapter 4 Eighteenth-Century Chinese Pioneers on the Water Frontier of Indochina Chapter 5 The Junk Trade Between South China and Nguyen Vietnam in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Part 6 Part II: Commercial Eddies and Flows Chapter 7 The Late-Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Mekong Delta in the Regional Trade System Chapter 8 The Nguyen Dynasty's Policy toward Chinese on the Water Frontier in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Chapter 9 Siam and the Contest for Control of the Trans-Mekong Trading Networks from the Late Eighteenth to the Mid-Nineteenth Centuries Chapter 10 Ships and Shipbuilding in the Mekong Delta, c. 1750-1840 Part 11 Part III: Beyond the Water Frontier Chapter 12 Water World: Chinese and Vietnamese on the Riverine Water Frontier, from Ca Mau to Tonle Sap (c. 1850-1884) Chapter 13 The Internationalization of Chinese Revenue Farming Networks Chapter 14 Appendix A: A "Coastal Route" from the Lower Mekong Delta to Terengganu Chapter 15 Appendix B: Glossary
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