Research Catalog

Title

War, trade and piracy in the China Seas, 1622-1683 / by Cheng Wei-chung.

Author

Zheng, Weizhong, 1974-

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 365 pages : maps; 25 cm

Summary

Approaching its demise, the Ming imperial administration enlisted members of the Cheng family as mercenaries to help in the defense of the coastal waters of Fukien. Under the leadership of Cheng Chih-lung, also known as Nicolas Iquan, and with the help of the local gentry, these mercenaries became the backbone of the empire's maritime defense and the protectors of Chinese commercial interests in the East and South China Seas. The fall of the Ming allowed Cheng Ch'eng-kung-alias Coxinga-and his sons to create a short-lived but independent seaborne regime in China's southeastern coastalprovinces that competed fiercely, if only briefly, with Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and English merchants during the early stages of globalization.

Series Statement

TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction

Uniform Title

TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction.

Subject

• Zheng family
• China > History > 17th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-355) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Missing Link -- The tributary system challenged -- Nicolas Iquan before 1627 -- The survival game of the mercenaries, 1628-1631 -- The establishment of the An-Hai trading emporium, 1630-1633 -- Stormy weather at the imperial court and on the south China coast, 1632-1633 -- The winding ways towards the western ocean -- The risk of politics and the politics of risk, 1636-1640 -- In search of silver in a changing world, 1640-1646 -- The open coast of the Chinese empire, 1646-1650 -- Fukienese exceptionalism transformed into a political project, 1650-1654 -- The passions of a merchant prince, 1654-1657 -- From defeat to victory, 1658-1662 -- All acknowledged by the kings, 1663-1667 -- Monopoly lost, 1669-1683 -- Conclusion: defensive and aggressive monopolies.

Call Number

JFE 16-3113

ISBN

• 9789004250666
• 9004250662
• 9789004253537
• 900425353X

LCCN

• 2013011774
• 40022594681

OCLC

841199105

Author

Zheng, Weizhong, 1974-

Title

War, trade and piracy in the China Seas, 1622-1683 / by Cheng Wei-chung.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction

TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-355) and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40022594681

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3113