1.Alexander Akin, East Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections. Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
2.伊藤幸司,《中世の博多とアジア》，日本：勉誠出版，2021.
1.Alexander Akin, East Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections.
Alexander Akin examines how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic materials in East Asia. Focusing on mass-produced printed maps, this book investigates a series of path-breaking late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century works in genres including geographical education, military affairs, and history, analysing how maps achieved unprecedented penetration among published materials, even in the absence of major theoretical or technological changes like those that transformed contemporary European cartography. By examining contemporaneous developments in neighboring Choson Korea and Japan, the study demonstrates the crucial importance of considering the broader East Asian sphere in this period as a network of communication and publication, rather than as discrete units with separate cartographic histories. It also reexamines the place of the Jesuits in this context, arguing that in printing maps on Ming soil they should be seen as participants in the local cartographic publishing boom and its trans-regional repercussions.
1.Yuanfei Wang, Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China. University of Michigan Press, 2021.
2.Bert Becker, France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930: Maritime competition and Imperial Power. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
1.Yuanfei Wang, Writing Pirates: Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China. University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Description
In Writing Pirates, Yuanfei Wang connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. In the late Ming dynasty, so-called “Japanese pirates” raided southeast coastal China. Hideyoshi invaded Korea. Europeans sailed for overseas territories, and Chinese maritime merchants and emigrants founded diaspora communities in Southeast Asia. Travel writings, histories, and fiction of the period jointly narrate pirates and China’s Orient in maritime Asia. Wang 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. At the center of the discourses, early modern concepts of empire, race, and authenticity were intensively negotiated. Connecting late Ming literature to the global maritime world, Writing Pirates expands current discussions of Chinese diaspora and debates on Sinophone language and identity.
2.Bert Becker, France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930: Maritime competition and Imperial Power. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930. With British Hong Kong and French Indochina on its northern and western shores, the ‘Asian Mediterranean’ was for almost a century a crucible of power and an axis of economic struggle for coastal shipping companies from various nations. Merchant steamers shipped cargoes and passengers between ports of the region. Hong Kong, the global port city, and the colonial ports of Saigon and Haiphong developed into major hubs for the flow of goods and people, while Guangzhouwan survived as an almost forgotten outpost of Indochina. While previous research in this field has largely remained within the confines of colonial history, this book uses the examples of French and German companies operating in the South China Sea to demonstrate the extent to which transnational actors and business networks interacted with imperial power and the process of globalisation.
資料來源：
1.University of Michigan Press: https://www.press.umich.edu/11564671/writing_pirates
2.Palgrave Macmillan: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030526030
1.Tonio Andrade, The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China. Princeton University Press, 2021.
2.林梅村，《觀滄海：青花瓷、鄭芝龍與大航海時代的文明交流》，臺北：聯經出版公司，2021。
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1.Tonio Andrade, The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
Overview
George Macartney’s disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily dismissed by the Qing court, Macartney failed in nearly all of his objectives, perhaps setting the stage for the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and the mistrust that still marks the relationship today. But not all European encounters with China were disastrous. The Last Embassy tells the story of the Dutch mission of 1795, bringing to light a dramatic but little-known episode that transforms our understanding of the history of China and the West.
Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Tonio Andrade paints a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of an age marked by intrigues and war. China was on the brink of rebellion. In Europe, French armies were invading Holland. Enduring a harrowing voyage, the Dutch mission was to be the last European diplomatic delegation ever received in the traditional Chinese court. Andrade shows how, in contrast to the British emissaries, the Dutch were men with deep knowledge of Asia who respected regional diplomatic norms and were committed to understanding China on its own terms.
Beautifully illustrated with sketches and paintings by Chinese and European artists, The Last Embassy suggests that the Qing court, often mischaracterized as arrogant and narrow-minded, was in fact open, flexible, curious, and cosmopolitan.
1.岸本美緒，《明末清初中国と東アジア近世》，東京：岩波書店，2021。
2.屈廣燕，《海患、海難與海商：朝鮮文獻中明清浙江涉海活動的整理與研究》。北京：海洋出版社，2020。
3.Anne Gerritsen, The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World, Cambridge University Press, 2020.2.
4.王俞現，《權力、資本與商幫：中國商人600年興衰史》。北京：聯合出版公司，2020。
5.石濤等著，《近世以來世界茶葉市場與中國茶葉》。北京：社會科學文獻出版社，2020。
6.謝湜，《山海故人：明清浙江的海疆歷史與海島社會》。北京：北京師範大學出版社，2020。
3.Anne Gerritsen: The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World, Cambridge University Press, 2020.2.
Acknowledgements
1. The Shard Market of Jingdezhen
2. City of Imperial Choice: Jingdezhen, 1000–1200
3. Circulations of White
4. From Cizhou to Jizhou: The Long History of the Emergence of Blue and White Porcelain
5. From Jizhou to Jingdezhen in the Fourteenth Century: The Emergence of Blue and White and the Circulations of People and Things
6. Blue and White Porcelain and the Fifteenth-Century World
7. The City of Blue and White: Visualizing Space in Ming Jingdezhen, 1500–1600
8. Anxieties over Resources in Sixteenth-Century Jingdezhen
9. Skilled Hands: Managing Human Resources and Skill in the Sixteenth-Century Imperial Kilns
10. Material Circulations in the Sixteenth Century
11. Local and Global in Jingdezhen’s Long Seventeenth Century
12. Epilogue: Fragments of a Global Past
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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